Doctors and nurses get iPads

John wrote:

Sorry:
That should read doctors' not doctor's. I'll correct that before somebody else corrects my grammar and implies my post is worthless because I can't get an apostrophe in the correct place!

20 Feb 2012 11:39 PM

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John wrote:

Lemon:
I suspect Angry Mum is trying to be amusing by trying to mimic some of the less intelligent comments which were common on this site before signing in was required. I am sure that he/she does not expect to be taken seriously in any of his/her posts.

On any public site, you will find trolls - posters who post provocative comments to see what sort of response they can get from the gullible. The normal advice is "please do not feed the trolls by replying to their posts". I do not consider Angry Mum a troll in the sense that he/she is simply being amusing - at least to those of us who have been reading the comments on this site for a long time.

Having written the above, I wonder if I should give any reply to Amazed as I find it hard to believe his/her comments are serious (I tend to assume he is male and, probably, of my generation).

This commodity, as he describes it, is actually intended to improve efficiency in patient care. I certainly do not have Amazed's faith in written records - for instance, how many patient deaths have been caused by hospital staff misreading drug dosage instructions. The joke about doctor's hand-writing being somewhat less than legible is based, in some part, on fact.

How many additional doctors or nurses does he think would be provided for the money this equipment costs. Additionally, does he really think the present government would even consider increasing the number of doctors and nurses?

20 Feb 2012 11:32 PM

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Lemon wrote:

@ Angry Mum

1) The council are not buying Ipads for Doctors and Nurses, the NHS are.
2) They are doing this in the hope that it will improve efficiency and patient care. In other words they are investing money in making people better, which is what they are there for.
3) Doctors may be well paid but Nurses certainly are not. In either case this is irrelevant. Why should they have to buy the tools they need to do their jobs? Does a bus driver have to buy his own bus?
4) Why do you think the Council should buy you an Ipad just because you live in Thanet and have no job? What would be the payback for the council?

If you can think of a better way to improve efficiency in the NHS, for what is actually a relatively small capital outlay, why don’t you take your ideas to your local NHS Trust. If your ideas are any good, they might give you a job so that you can put them in place.

20 Feb 2012 12:30 PM

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Zedboy wrote:

Excellent use of cheap technology. They will reduce mistakes, improve quality of care and increase clinical and admin efficiency..... And then the chavs will pinch them ...argh!?!

19 Feb 2012 5:06 PM

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Dan Gleballs wrote:

The idea is, in principle, fairly sound, but perhaps a smaller device, which can be kept on the person may be more advisable, as you can guarantee that these things will get stolen. Then again, if it's known that staff are carrying smaller ones, they'd probably get robbed for them. It seems the NHS management have some "bright ideas", but don't really think them through perhaps as thoroughly they might. I feel sorry for the actual nursing staff, they try to do their level best under very difficult circumstances, but get more and more pressure put on them. It seems as if nursing will need a higher IT qualification than nursing ones before long!

19 Feb 2012 2:28 PM

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Amazed wrote:

First of all I am amazed at the waste of TAXPAYERS money on what appears to be a totally unnecessary commodity. Balance the cost of these against medications that will not be funded by the NHS to help relieve pain and save peoples lives. On the point of them being stolen we as patients we are at risk of identity theft and patient confidentiality being breached. I am all in favour of improved patient care, but I believe that funding additional doctors or nurses would assist patient care and the continuation of tried and tested written records be maintained. An absollute sham!

19 Feb 2012 11:00 AM

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Angry Mum wrote:

Why are these lot gettin anything? They get paid enough to by there own. There are loads of us in thanet with no job council could of brought us ipad's to.

19 Feb 2012 7:56 AM

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IGGY wrote:

Anything that takes away the stigma of i (incontinence) pads has got to be the way forward!

18 Feb 2012 11:13 PM

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kentresident wrote:

They'll be getting nicked!

18 Feb 2012 8:07 PM

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