I fond out a friend of a friend who is a nurse has been suspended from her position in Cambridge pending a review as she gave wrong drip to someone. She is on full pay while this goes on but is working in Huntingdon hospital currently doing bank agency work as she did this before so I thinking didn't have to check her. Now is this allowed? It wouldn't bother me but was boasting to a mate that she got £4500 last month with shift work and other payments

Morally wrong if she knows she is under review for wrongdoing


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But is it allowed why can she work in one hospital but not in another

May I add innocent until proven guilty, and from what was said by Mr Compo, who's actual fault was it the wrong drip was given? May have been human error by the nurse, the doctor presribing it, the bloke/woman in stores etc.

As for "Moonlighting", the NHS are understaffed, so I can only guess that if a well qualified nurse asked for work, then checks maybe not so strict.

Morally stupid I would say. Working during the summer , when on full pay. Could though be possibly be fearing the worst ( sack ) and already putting feelers out for alternative employment. I think it a bit harsh if someone is sacked for something like that and they're blackballed from nursing full stop.

A lass I know has just lost her job, because of drink driving. Worked all her life, good at her job, never been in trouble before, has argument with husband about money , stormed out of house , after having had a good few drinks and drives away in car a couple of miles to Seaburn , parked up and fell asleep. Next thing she knows is local plod knocking on window.

Now I'm not condoning the drink driving , but to lose her job , and to get a criminal record , that basically can stop you from ever again getting meaningful reasonably paid employment that has nothing to do with driving , is a bit harsh imo. Scary that one moment of madness like that could seriously change and or ruin your life.

Is it any wonder the NHS is on its arse. It really is rotten throughout. The standard of care for people in hartlepool and surrounding area is 3rd world sometimes.

My mother in law suffered a ruptured aneurysm recently. Upon attending North tees A and E they told her they thought she had a blood clot in her leg. 24 hours and a CT scan later they came rushing to her bed with some tablets. Telling her she must take them immediately as giving blood thinning medication to someone with a bleed on the brain is about as bad as it gets. They told her she would be going to james cook that day for emergency surgery. That didnt happen and they then placed a lady with dementia in a 4 bay room who screamed for 8 hours. Aneurysms cause cripplung headaches that are made worse by loud noise. Then to top it off they kept missing her morphene pain relief and gave her oral pain relief but didnt bring water for another hour. To top it off the nurse on an emergency assessment unit had 8 patients to deal with. Utterly appauling hospital. Finally it took 48 hours to get emergency surgery as it was a weekend and had to be done at RVI hospital due to james cook being full.

Too many heads of hospital trusts who make decisioms without any interaction with patients. Too much spent on agency staff instead of making nurses wages and working conditions more attracive and recruiting more students for future and far far too much money wasted with corrupt deals with suppliers.

Rant over

Better that she lost her job than someone lost their life though.

Of course it is, but no one did lose their life, it was 3 in the morning and no traffic on the road. Like I said not condoning it, just the losing job and becoming more or less unemployable because of it, seems a bit harsh to me for a first time indiscretion. You hear of rarfs all the time , get tickled with a feather duster, when they have defied bans and drunk drive several times over again. The point I'm trying to make is people make mistakes , just one mistake , and sometimes the consequences are dire.

Was in James Cook the other week , was like the Marie Celeste, apparently nearly everyone on their summer hols, the staff work so many hours, they just never get the opportunity to take their holidays entitlement , so in the summer they take it or they risk losing it. Then they just cant get replacements , what a mess this country is in. Stories abound of people getting passed from pillar to post and back again , in the name of either saving money or more worryingly to make money. You find these days a GP or doctor will say you have for example high iron in your blood, then you talk to your mate down the pub and he will say his GP or doctor said the same to him, and then every other 50+ bloke in the pub will say they said the same thing to them. Its all target driven and box ticking, to make money and worry the life out of people.

No wonder mistakes are being made. All because of this obscene desire to privatise the NHS.