Cuts at a Cost to Peoples Health

I have to say I don't agree with everything David Cameron and his puppet government are saying and doing, in fact, I think that these people, many of whom have been brought up in a privileged way and have never had to struggle to make ends meet are completely out of touch with the ordinary people.

Last night, well really early this morning, my mobile which is always next to my bed went off. It was a call from  my night staff, 'Bert has fallen, and cut his head open,' 

'OK', I sighed, 'I shall come out' I have had to put a rule in place that I am called before any ambulance is called because there was a complaint that my Nepalese night staff cannot be understood by the ambulance call centre which had resulted in an adult protection alert by a ambulance crew attending in the past, unfounded but costing us a lot of money and me having to put very strong policies in place. My Nepalese night staff is brilliant, I couldn't ask for a more caring or more conscientiousness member of staff to be on at night.

So on went my clothes and off I went back to the home. Bert had got out of bed to go to the toilet and had got his foot tangled in a blanket and had fallen with hell of a bang. My night staff had done everything right, staunching the flow of blood by direct pressure, and had it almost completely under control. I took one look and called the ambulance as he had a deep cut about two inches long on the right hand side of his forehead. They came quickly and as I thought Bert was taken to hospital for treatment. I was told by the ambulance crew that they would not be able to transport him back when he was finished.

So back to bed for about two hours of broken sleep (ha ha) waiting for my mobile to go off again, which it did at about 4am. I went and got Bert and returned him back to the home, but gave up going back to bed myself as I know that as I normally do I will be back in work this morning as I have another resident who is 103 today and I have a cake on order, I want to make sure everything is arranged for this afternoon.

I can't believe that the ambulance cannot transport people back from hospital,which they did in the very recent past. There has been no communication by any official about this sudden change, so people like me who actually really care about elderly residents have to continually put ourselves out. My gripe about this is that for at least the past three weeks I haven't had one full day off. I have worked on average 10 - 11 hours Monday - Friday, been into work for up to three hours on Saturday, and receive phone calls or text messages from staff about being too sick to come into work, even though I am the oldest member of staff and I haven't had a day off sick for 13 months, and I have been on call for the majority of that time.

This government, no all politicians are completely out of touch, and some are still fiddling their expenses, others trying to find loopholes to abuse, and more complaining about how unfair the expenses system now is, but they are the ones who have abused the system, and they get paid a damn sight more than me or nurses, or carers, who continually work flat out to help others whilst these people tell us how hard they work on our behalf and they deserve everything they get - WHY?

Bercow to me is a complete biased fool led by his mouthy wife. Cameron, Clegg, Miliband, Balls, Harman, Cable and everyone else seems to be so far removed from what is really being felt by ordinary people, that they might as well be governing another country, on another planet, in another galaxy. I know we have to cut back, but politicians led us into this depression, but it is the ordinary person who hurts the most, whilst these silver spoon millionaires walk around almost telling us how good we have got it. GET REAL!!