I’ve started reading Dr. Crippen’s NHS Doctor blog. He seems to be another fellow soul; close to having a Victor "I don’t believe it!" Meldrew meltdown like me at the foibles of today’s modern world, infested as it is with management consultants and others of their ilk. The good doctor tells another cautionary tale today about the state of cleanliness in the NHS. I fear that something similar is happening in the Dutch health system, but so far, touch wood, I haven’t yet had to sample it at first hand. My time will surely come, though.
Dr. Crippen’s Cautionary Tale
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Thanks for the mention Geoff. I’m sad to hear that the cleaning problem is hitting Holland. I have not "sampled" the hospitals there, but certainly the French and German hospitals I’ve been in were all spotless.Yes, I am approaching meltdown, which is why I am blogging. It is hugely destressing and gratifyingly a few people are acutally reading the blog. For all the cynicism, I do care very much about the standard of healthcare in the UK – well, everywhere, really I guess. I used to shout and scream about it a lot in committees. I find fleshing the problems out round a human and possilby humorous story is more effective…and certainly more relaxing!
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I’ve been doing some brief checking around, and it does seem that at the moment the incidence of MRSA cases in Dutch hospitals is less, on a comparative basis, than in the UK. However, there’s no room for complacency – just this month a patient and two hospital workers were infected with MRSA in our local hospital here in Gouda…
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