Psychotherapist Claire Goodwin-Fee is used to helping people navigate trauma, yet her recent work with NHS staff has left her in utter despair. ‘The workforce is exhausted and demoralised and are working under horrendous pressure.'
. In a recent survey, 32% of frontline workers that we spoke to said they had felt suicidal in the last two weeks.’& frontline workers with emotional and psychological support at the height of the Covid crisis – adds that she is convinced lives are more in danger now than ever before, even in times of the pandemic.
‘My day job is Gastro but when I am on call every medical admission to the hospital goes through me and I am in charge of running emergencies and cardiac arrests on the wards for all hospital patients. ‘I felt forced to go to A&E, take referrals for every patient with a medical problem needing admission to the hospital from both A&E and GPs.’
‘While we were there I referred my sick lady in A&E to the ITU team for review. I then had to comfort one of our first year doctors who had never seen CPR before – for context it is brutal, ribs are broken and you can feel them under your hands as you do compressions – I hugged her as she cried and tried to comfort her but then got fast bleeped to another ward to another emergency.
‘It is not right seeing 90 year olds dying in A&E departments instead of in a side room surrounded by their loved ones and it’s draining to know you’re working flat out but can’t provide the standard of care you know you’re capable of because of such a stretched over-burdened system.’ ‘There is no privacy or dignity we can provide to patients in these circumstances. I have attended to patients unable to mobilise independently asking for help because they needed to toilet and have soiled themselves,’ he tells Metro.co.uk.
‘Our working conditions are worse than ever: you’re expected to make hundreds of critical diagnostic assessments and life and death decisions, face challenging clinical situations, brush it off and continue your shift or come home to being a functional member of society.’With junior doctors suffering pay cuts of 26.1% since 2008, it has led to the loss of retention of staff, with many leaving the NHS to find work in private sectors, countries or industries.
‘This affects all levels of staff from Porters, HCA’s, Nurses, Doctors and consultants. There are huge staff shortages and often one healthcare assistant will be looking after 25 patients. This is incredibly unsafe for the patient and the staff alike. As thousands of junior doctors in England began voting this week on whether to strike over pay in the latest outbreak of industrial unrest sweeping the country, it looks like the NHS is not on the verge of breaking, but is already broken.
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