A tale of our time!

[excoriator]

A friend of my daughter recently secured an administrative post in the NHS. She has no training whatsoever in medicine, but on turning up on her first day was asked what size scrubs she needed. She replied she didn't know but the questioner quickly decided she needed a size, handed it all over and told her to get changed into them.

Confused as to whether admin staff needed them too, she complied and was then taken to a cubicle, shown where syringes and needles etc were, and told that someone would soon come to give her training in inoculating patients.

It was only when she confided to the trainer that she hated needles, that it emerged she was there for an admin job. Even then, there seemed to be some debate as to whether she could be allowed to give injections to the general public, anyway, being dressed for it as it were. In the event they decided against it, and she was allowed to proceed to her office job.

I think it probably shows the level of strain the NHS is under at the moment, more than anything else.

[aubrey]

God.

There was debate one time over whether a nurse who hadn't been trained for it could do my dialysis needles. The debate was between me and her, and I was quite willing, though in the end it didn't go any further.

[excoriator]

I know her and she is a kind, obliging sort of girl who would have given it her best shot I think. And probably done as good a job of it as a properly trained nurse, but I don't suppose she would be prepared for the odd case of a sever allergic reaction, which I imagine turn up from time to time.