... questions, dreamed up by BBC staff searching for bad news ?
... to wit ...
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS LOST DUE TO HOSPITAL TURNAROUNDS ABOVE 20 MINUTES. TURNAROUND BEING WHEN A&E NOTIFIED BY AMBULANCE CREW THAT PATIENT HAS ARRIVED TO PATIENT BEING HANDED OVER.... and the bad news ...
BBC Wales health correspondent Arwyn Jones concludes that because there has been a notional rise in the time it takes ambulance staff to hand over patients to hospital staff there is a burdensome cost to the NHS in Wales, his research is published here, check the table, the average handover time from ambulance is ....
.... less than 20 minutes, I believe there should be an applause at this point for the ambulance service staff, but not from the buffoons at BBC Wales, the reporter has written ...
... the total number of hours lost in Wales due to hospital turnarounds above 20 minutes has increased from 37,712 hours in 2008-2009, to 54,476 hours in 2010-2011.What is he implying, a level of incompetence possibly, or are the staff on a go-slow, it's a bullshit story from a bullshit organisation, the NHS in Wales hasn't an additional cost of £10 million, what it has in reality is ...
... additional effort by the ambulance and A&E hospital staff to meet the demands of the public, and I say this with a certain confidence, because everyone gets treatment.
Maybe the reporters at BBC Wales should get out more, sit alongside people who actually work for a living rather than looking for a story where a story doesn't exist, paid for by the very same people they look to criticise.
They might also consider reading Robert Pirsig's MOQ, and pass it around the political reporters, they are in dire need ...
I think this is the first time.I find myself with an agreement with you John but this realy was a disgraceful piece of reporting from BBC Wales.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Glyn that there is more to life than criticising people who do not deserve the criticism, and for what, a few inches or minutes of news, it really is time these news-makers took a turn in the real world and broke out into a sweat like the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteSpot on.
ReplyDeleteShame that this kind or reporting is part of a growing culture among BBC reporters, not an isolated incident. What I find ironic in this almost pathological searching-out of bad nursing by the Corporation is why the same high level of "scrutiny" does not exist for social workers when things go wrong on their watch..?
(Declaration of interest - the missus is a nurse.)