Breast Feeding in Hospital.

nickyhutch

Glamazon wrote: »

I work in the NHS too and think that the money they spend on useless managers is far more than that of feeding a small number of BF mums who are staying at the hospital to care for a sick child. Sack a few managers and feed the people who need it.

Would YOU pay for that crap that they call food anyway? I certainly wouldn't!

If I was BFing my sick child and couldn't leave his side, yes I would. I'd need it to keep up my strength and milk production. You're right about the managers, but the waste goes all the way down from them to the bottom, and it's not just salaries.

Sorry to OP for going off track.

ceebeeby

I disagree entirely with NHS hospitals paying for visiting or resident parents meals unless in a one-off emergency (diabetic parent attending emergency etc.).

Assuming one meal for one parent costs £1.50, multiplied by 3 meals per day, multiplied by 365 days in the year = £1642.50 per bed per year, multiplied by say 250 beds in the hospital = £410,625. Then you need to add on the cost of the meal transport costs to the parent (including heated trolley), the remnants collected, the dishes appropriately cleaned etc. and returned to the dining room - as a guesstimate, 4 porters for 250 beds, 365 days a year (so count for 6 posts roughly???) = £120,000 - so now we've gone past the half a million mark (£530,625).

In terms of not wanting to leave the childs side, it is neither heroic, appropriate or healthy to have the same adult next to the child continuously for 24 hours without a single seconds break. The parent / carer needs bathroom breaks, a freshen up, some fresh air, the opportunity to speak to their support (parent / partner etc.), speak to other parents. This is why the majority of parents will take meal breaks whilst other visitors are with their child, so they know the child hasn't been 'left alone'. Most hopsitals will have a fast bleep system to retrieve the parent if necessary.

There is a finite budget allocated for patient care, and if parents would rather the money was spent on them rather than on the patient (the children) then by all means it's worth pursuing, but on the basis there is NO MORE MONEY, it will inevitably result in another service being cut.

I can't quite get my head round anyway, why a healthy person thinks the NHS should feed them ...?

And to the OP, if you continue pursuing it with PALS, I have no doubt whatsoever that your DD will be fed, but not for the reasons you may be hoping for - it will be to keep you quiet and not to create mayhem in an already stretched system, where the number one priority is the children and not the parents.

This post is not intended to insult or upset anyone, but just a tiny reality check into what it is you're looking to change, and the cost of it etc.!

thatgirlsam

i would agree with the above post if i hadn't seen the amount of food the NHS happily throws in the bin

food that has nothing wrong with it , somtimes containers of food that haven't been touched , they have to be binned if they come back from the wards

ceebeeby

But that's because they're deemed spoilt, and not allowed (H&S) to be re-served. I've never seen people 'happily' throwing it in the bin though.

thatgirlsam

ceebeeby wrote: »

But that's because they're deemed spoilt, and not allowed (H&S) to be re-served. I've never seen people 'happily' throwing it in the bin though.

i have !

the food is not spoilt .. the NHS wastes so much !

it would rather bin it than let its staff eat it :eek:

3onitsway

nickyhutch wrote: »

When my OH is in hospital next time with his heart condition (at just 40), should I get meals when I'm there all day and night with him?

Yes you should, if you're breastfeeding him!



The OP has asked for information from MSEer's to help her daughter and grandaughter - not a debate on the state of the NHS. :mad:

nickyhutch

3onitsway wrote: »

Yes you should, if you're breastfeeding him!



The OP has asked for information from MSEer's to help her daughter and grandaughter - not a debate on the state of the NHS. :mad:

It's called a discussion/conversation - they tend to go off on tangents.

nickyhutch

thatgirlsam wrote: »

i have !

the food is not spoilt .. the NHS wastes so much !

it would rather bin it than let its staff eat it :eek:

I's not spoilt, but it's deemed spoiled, for H&S reasons. Anything could have happened to it on the ward or its way back to the kitchens. Why should the staff get it for free? Or would you pay for it?

thatgirlsam

nickyhutch wrote: »

I's not spoilt, but it's deemed spoiled, for H&S reasons. Anything could have happened to it on the ward or its way back to the kitchens. Why should the staff get it for free? Or would you pay for it?

nothing has happened to it as it is covered ..

the staff should get it for free as it is going into the bin!!

i would rather anyone ate it than perfectly good food being chucked away ..

the soup kitchen should be able to collect it in the evening and give it to the homeless !

im not saying the staff should get priority , we don't even get concessions in the canteen these days ..

nickyhutch

thatgirlsam wrote: »

nothing has happened to it as it is covered ..

the staff should get it for free as it is going into the bin!!

i would rather anyone ate it than perfectly good food being chucked away ..

the soup kitchen should be able to collect it in the evening and give it to the homeless !

im not saying the staff should get priority , we don't even get concessions in the canteen these days ..

It doesn't matter if anything happened to it - for H&S purposed, it's spoiled.

The staff shouldn't get it for free. The taxpayer is paying for that. If there is so much waste, the reason behinf the wasste should be looked at, which is a different matter entirely.

The taxpayer pays for any concessions too - why should they?