I think that they have fired most if not all of the data and insights people at health NZ, and some of the rosters are run off spreadsheets, so it is almost impossible to tell centrally what is happening on the floor day in and day out.
My father talks of this a lot. He’s now retired, early I might add, but formerly was a consultant and clinical director.
Understaffing has been a problem for years - the goalposts get shifted to make it look less bad. Many won’t be aware that it is perfectly acceptable (somehow) to send one nurse into the community to administer drugs to potentially volatile and unpredictable patients, or exactly how unsafe this understaffing makes a forensic secure unit?
As an aside the police pulling back on mental health call-outs is going to dramatically exacerbate this AND quite probably contravenes the mental health act that requires their presence as they are the only people with the legal power to detain and manage some of the patients …
🫂 Thanks for such a succinct summary... Good healthcare SAVES $$ in preventing more expensive interventions, & improves the quality of life of individuals, their families, & productivity in workplaces 👍
You’re joking, right? RIGHT????
Bad enough that Code Black was abolished, now they don’t even want to know when staffing levels become unsafe?
This is utterly frustrating, and quite frankly criminal…
If they don’t collect the stats, then there is no problem 🤦♀️
This is a strategy I have seen in many government areas. If you don't collect the data then there isn't a problem to address.
I think that they have fired most if not all of the data and insights people at health NZ, and some of the rosters are run off spreadsheets, so it is almost impossible to tell centrally what is happening on the floor day in and day out.
This is so terrifying
My father talks of this a lot. He’s now retired, early I might add, but formerly was a consultant and clinical director.
Understaffing has been a problem for years - the goalposts get shifted to make it look less bad. Many won’t be aware that it is perfectly acceptable (somehow) to send one nurse into the community to administer drugs to potentially volatile and unpredictable patients, or exactly how unsafe this understaffing makes a forensic secure unit?
As an aside the police pulling back on mental health call-outs is going to dramatically exacerbate this AND quite probably contravenes the mental health act that requires their presence as they are the only people with the legal power to detain and manage some of the patients …
🫂 Thanks for such a succinct summary... Good healthcare SAVES $$ in preventing more expensive interventions, & improves the quality of life of individuals, their families, & productivity in workplaces 👍
Thoroughly agree with you Cindy, as usual!!
Well if you don't allow data to be collected....there's no problem eh? Nothing to see here...move along please
This govt is allergic to data, research, evidence and public good.
What can we do? It's becoming a full time job to send emails (politely) saying WTF are you doing.