As Winter approaches and pressure increases on the Island’s NHS services, St Mary’s Hospital has asked Islanders for their support.
Families and friends are being asked to support the NHS by collecting patients from hospital as soon as they are ready to be discharged and to consider offering short term support and care for their loved ones at home.
Juliet Pearce, Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professionals, said:
“We are seeing increasing numbers of people coming through our front doors as the weather is getting colder. Our priority is to keep our patients and staff safe, and our staff are working extremely hard – we are very grateful for that.
“The biggest difference we could make is to safely discharge those patients who no longer need specialist care in a hospital. The public can help us by collecting and supporting friends and family that are ready to leave hospital, this frees up beds for people who need to be admitted.
“We are heading into winter where we typically see more flu and other respiratory viruses – so getting a COVID-19 and flu jab if you are eligible, will help to protect yourself and other vulnerable people.”
Dr Michele Legg, island GP and Clinical Director at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board, said:
“I cannot emphasise enough how hard colleagues across the Isle of Wight are working together to ensure our patients continue being able to access the care they need when they need it.
Article continues below this advertisement “People can also help by looking out for elderly and vulnerable people in the community, and by choosing the right service at the right time.
“We all need to do what we can to ensure urgent care appointments are free for those who need them and considering where else they could get care whether that’s their local pharmacy, an online consultation through their GP practice or contacting NHS 111 online.”
The Trust is asking member of the public to:
• Collect family and friends from hospital as soon as they are ready to be discharged to free up beds for those who need them.
• Consider supporting your friends or family at home if you are able to – there is financial help available.
• Being extra vigilant in the cold weather and when surfaces are slippery.
• Supporting friends, family and neighbours with keeping warm, shopping and collecting prescriptions if needed.
• Think about the most appropriate NHS service for your needs and to only call 999 in the event of a life-threatening illness or injury.
• Visit NHS 111 online or call NHS 111 for heath advice, or alternatively contact your local pharmacist or GP team.
• Get vaccinated – get your COVID and flu jabs if you’re eligible.
“• Visit NHS 111 online or call NHS 111 for heath advice, or alternatively contact your local pharmacist or GP team.”
Oh no! Lets not open that can of worms.
We all pay in to this FAILING service.
They should be able to cope.
Confisgate all NHS Staff personal mobile phones until there shifts end.
They would get more done that way.
They cope on PAY DAY
Oh yeah, treating them like children will surely make all educated people with uni degrees beg for a job in NHS rather than private healthcare – professionals love to be infantilised ;)))
Tune in this time every year for the same crap..
If they are overwhelmed AGAIN
All sick paid should be Cancelled with immediate effect
So all the Shirking NHS Staff go to work and do what they are paid for.
They earn good money, great benefits and a great pension scheme.
YET THEY STILL WAN’T MORE MONEY
Greedy B’stards
So much money that people are leaving all NHS professions at record levels and there are enormous numbers of vacancies. How about you get off your backside and do the work for their pay if it’s so great
It seems to be every other month ! As for asking G.P they won’t have any appointments and tell you to ring 111 who will then send you to A&E even for what might be a simple thing and so goes the vicious circle !
Blame the managers NOT the frontline staff. Most of the managers take the p**s by hiding in offices or just standing around doing f’all.
Dear St Mary’s, we would love to help by collecting our loved ones as soon as possible after they are discharged. Please can you do anything to speed up the discharge pharmacy service? It can be many hours waiting, either on the ward, or in the ‘discharge lounge’, before prescribed medication arrives. Fix this please.
I wonder somtimes if the NHS isn’t fit for purpose how about scrapping it? Cut all the tax I pay for a rubbish service, I’ll then put that money into private health insurance.
That’s exactly what the Tories want…. thay’ve been working towards it for years…
rund down the NHS to make it look like it’s not fit for purpose & then make everyone go private instead…
cut the taxes & then get everyone to Pay loads and loads for private health insurance, to put all that money into the pockets of rich the shareholders
And yet it was a labour government who sold off a hospital!!
As the saying goes “the last person to walk into the houses of parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes”
As the saying goes “you can only get better,unless you’re a banana ” Be interested to hear the facts of your claim, something tells me I’ll be waiting a while.
Hitchingbrook hospital is the only hospital to have been privatised and it was by a labour government.
Feel free to look it up on google, you won’t have to wait long.
NICs for most people on less than £80k is super low. You will have to pay 10x more for private healthcare but they don’t handle complex cases anyway – if you cull NHS completely then expect £300/mo at least for healthy 20 and 30yos and £700/mo for people aged 60 and more… as long as they’re healthy of course, more if you have underlying conditions – those are prices from US for full care, though some excesses may still apply.
Want a single 3h of a 50yo health assessment? £1000 please. Current Bupa pricing.
What, like in the United States, where people pay an average of $7000 a year in medical insurance.
And, then, when you have a serious medical condition (cancer, for example), you are not covered for that condition unless you pay a massive increase in premium, or accept a massive excess.
Most ordinary Americans don’t survive if their cancer returns, or are bankrupt by it.
Erm.. have you seen America?
It would be interesting to know how many NHS shirkers,
I mean workers are off sick during Half Term?!
The excess death’s are still high so you know what you can do with your COVID jab
The British parliament do not seem fo care about excess deaths.
Watch this to see how few members of parliament turned up for this debate on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44Mg67d_no
That is why MPs are exempt from taking these Jabs
The only way to reach their goal of net zero is to D pop ulate, hence the recent
experimental medical procedures.
Responding to John….The big problem is Nursing never needed to be at degree level.
You don’t need a degree to do nursing.
You need caring people who want to work looking after people.
Its not an academic job; that’s the problem.
People don’t all want degrees, and don’t need them to do the job.
Nurse training used to be done on site at St Marys in the training school, with accommodation.
No traveling involved.
No Band this and Band that which only causes animosity among staff.
Nurses nursed, observed, recorded and reported on their findings, auxiliary’s supported.
The hospital is ultra busy because they shut Ryde, Shanklin, Frank James and the Private hospital.
I worked at St Marys for 30 years I know.
At last common sense, the trouble is we are where we are, these old hospitals will never come back, and these days you need a degree to become a road sweeper (that is now a highway maintenance operator ) in case you use the wrong end of the broom. Then when you have your degree you need a substantial wage to pay off your student loan and pay the rent and council tax for your one-bedroom flat 15 miles from your place of work, if you can actually find anywhere to rent for the rest of your life.
Well said, and nurses back in the day before degrees seemed more competent than many do today.
Nowadays many Nurses think looking after patients is beneath them because
they have degrees
Yes. Was talking the other day about that. What degree holder wants to be told to empty bedpans and change soiled sheets?
That is true, nowadays they employ a load of pre madonna’s
Most of them could not change a bed sheet or wipe a patients bottom.
Until we ditch the unnesseccary Management, bring back the Matrons and
start employing genuine caring nurses, not nurses who think having a degree
is what nursing is all about.
I bet there are plenty of uneducated persons who cannot even read and write,
but I bet their caring skills are better than a pre-madonna who has a degree!
Totally agree with you @Freespeech
After reading the comments on here,it beggars belief that some of you walk amongst us. Unfortunately I had a 4 day stay at St Mary’s last week and saw first hand the conditions these people are working under and they do an amazing job that not many people want to do and we should be very grateful for that. At the end of the day the NHS needs help and that starts with government for all the issues at hand proper investment and an overhaul is the only way forward. Remember it was only 2 years ago you all stood outside on a Thursday and clapped!
The issues are caused by poor management. Cut he number of ‘managers’ and employ more staff on the ground is what is needed.
They should be called “so called managers” as most of them end up hiding away, and not “managing” at all.
Funny that, isn’t it.
The far-right press tell them to stand outside to clap and bang pots and pans, and like good little mindless drones, they do.
Then the far-right press tell them that NHS workers are money-grabbing and work-shy, and like good little mindless drones they believe it.
Pathetic, isn’t it?
I was taken ill about 10days ago and was taken into A&E where I waited 7hours for the complete care package. I most certainly didn’t mind waiting 7 hours because the various tests, treatments etc I had were given with care and compassionate. I had a really pleasant Doctor who explained everything to me. I asked how long he had been on duty and he said since 7am …it was now gone 10pm. The same for the Nurses…but worst of all was the morons who berated the staff because of the waiting time!! The staff were constantly rushing around trying their very best!!
The people who slag off the nhs do so from the comfort of their own home, normally in good health. It’s nice to hear how someone inside the hospital actually witnessed the effort that the staff put in on a daily basis. The staff put up with so much abuse from the general public it is unreal, and all the while covering other people who are off sick, half term coming up and those with little kids have to make hard decisions on being at home or at work, winter setting in with all the extra problems that brings and then we have the xmas drunks, car crashes, and everything else to deal with. And when these little darlings cut their thumb they come running to A&E, Work in our shoes for a while before slagging us off. And thank you Linda.
People enter the world of healthcare and persist because they want to help people. They compensate for those on sick leave, which is diabolically managed nowadays, primarily because society gets on its high horse so much re “human rights” and “reasonable adjustments” etc. this leaves managers powerless and in a desperate situation trying to support their team. They compensate for budget cuts in the post lockdown financial crisis so these roles aren’t backfilled. They compensate for people not taking responsibility for their own health nor the health of their supposed loved ones. They plough on without the resource despite the detriment to their own health because they care. Have a thought about consequence before kicking off…again.
Blame the people… pesky bloody ill people!!