Rather than sitting around with distant relatives you hardly know, drinking goodness knows what and eating enough in one meal to feed the village, you're stuck in hospital with nothing but Patientline to bring an element of Christmas cheer to your bedside. Problem is, one day's worth of TV costs a small fortune and programming is going downhill these days anyway. What's on? 'The Great Escape' again, along with as many Disney films and sitcom repeats as can be squeezed into the schedule. Perhaps Christmas in hospital won't be so bad after all. Think again...
One NHS Trust in Hampshire have decided to ditch the tinsel and various other bits of shiny clutter "to tackle infections" such as MRSA and Clostridium Difficile. But before you loose heart and feel that the NHS have cancelled Christmas this year, fear not! Management at the Trust have explained that the lack of decorations will be replaced by lots of "treats" for the patients. And their idea of "treats"?
"We've already had offers of handmade chocolates and luxurious Christmas cakes from top hotels and we're inviting the local panto dame and cast to come in too as well as choristers and carol singers."
The chocolate and cake is no doubt a nice touch, but if patients are too unwell to go home for Christmas, will they be well enough to gobble up posh nosh? What about the patients who are nil by mouth? And as for the panto dame and cast...
... would you want this lot turning up by your bed when you're in pain, feel queasy and are in a new pair of horrendous Christmas pyjamas bought for you by your great aunt? Me neither. I bet that tinsel sounds appealing now, doesn't it?!
3 comments:
The panto and carol singer's will be soon culled once the PC brigade get whiff of this!
Top hotels- Like Travel lodge?
hahaha good post!
i got my first look at patientline today, i was shocked to see it's £2.90/day for one thing.
Jeremy Kyle was on, needless to say - not value for money IMO...
I would think Travelodge is a bit too upmarket for the NHS to scrounge freebies from. Perhaps they mean "hotel" (i.e. the back of a lorry)!
Jeremy Kyle eh? Like I said, TV programming has gone downhill these days...
I'm still trying to work out how not putting up Christmas decorations will "tackle" the various infections floating around our hospitals - we don't have decorations up at the moment and infections are rife!
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