Hospitals and Sales Should NOT be Combined
September 14, 2009 7:15 PM
Kelly-Marie, the Ashford team and Party President Ros Scott
by Kennington Liberal Democrat Campaigner, Kelly-Marie Blundell
Not content with turning local governments and the police into marketing and business development, the government is now initiating sales techniques in hospitals.
"95% of your time will be actively spent on the wards ... Promoting & selling the use of bedside media entertainment TV, Phone, Internet, Radio and Games"
http://www.myjobsearch.com/browse/e92c7b0316.html
I am literally appalled to discover that patients, or to get the government lingo correct, clients, are being sold technology.
Hospitals are suffering enough with the NHS being composed of 68% administrative (read bureaucracy) staff.
One member of my ward informed me last week when he had to take his elderly mother to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, he was told she was not from this area and therefore they may not be able to keep her. It was actually recommended he take his mother to her own PCT in London with her broken arm to get treated.
And now while patients are recovering from surgery, injury and disease, they are being cajoled and manipulated by sales assistants?
I'm keen to hear your comments on this issue - please contact me on kellymarie.blundell@googlemail.com
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