The NHS doesn't want its property returned.

hightara

and if you have some great ideas how to improve the financial situation, then perhaps you should change career, as I'm certain that it pays more than carer rates

Pedantics .. I will re-word that.......suggesting that the OP change career.
Some good suggestions from yourself and others, donating to charities, selling them to help the patients in the care home.

DUTR

hightara wrote: »

Pedantics .. I will re-word that.......suggesting that the OP change career.
Some good suggestions from yourself and others, donating to charities, selling them to help the patients in the care home.

Yet I didn't get a thanks or your mouse button slipped lol.
And pedantic it was, neither you or she should take offence to it, we are in the real world, H&S was obvious along with other reasons why it is not a great idea to be returning the items, blaming the non return of used material on the downfall of the NHS, I'm saying in a non rude way (which you maybe choosing to ignore) is that the OP along with many other readers already make a great contribution to society, yet could be recognised more for the great work she does, becoming a consultant to HM Goverment and the NHS.

DigForVictory

I gave the blanket & pyjamas to the local homeless shelter. The NHS isn't the only team having to sort emergency bedding.

daveyjp

Its their policy because in the grand scheme of costs these items are dirt cheap.

Every hospital would need somewhere to receive these items, check them, launder them, get them back to the stores, and reissue. This would cost far more than having fresh ones from the supplier.

Manxman_in_exile

daveyjp wrote: »

Its their policy because in the grand scheme of costs these items are dirt cheap.

Every hospital would need somewhere to receive these items, check them, launder them, get them back to the stores, and reissue. This would cost far more than having fresh ones from the supplier.

It seems bonkers but I think this is the answer.


Years ago the NHS had a central supply system for everything...then one of Margaret Thatcher's advisors suggested each hospital should negotiate their own deals(!?!?)...now it's being suggested that the NHS should negotiate national deals...


It's both funny and sad at the same time...

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When the paramedics left one of their blankets behind in my house, I laundered it and took it up to the ambulance station.

antrobus

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

It seems bonkers but I think this is the answer.

Years ago the NHS had a central supply system for everything...then one of Margaret Thatcher's advisors suggested each hospital should negotiate their own deals(!?!?)...now it's being suggested that the NHS should negotiate national deals...

It's both funny and sad at the same time...

It's even funnier that the NHS Supply Chain, formerly known as NHS Logistics is still going.
https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/

The NHS has always had a central supply system. It has never gone away. Mind you, it's not compulsory to use it. Years ago, when I worked for a trust, they used to get their coffee and biscuits etc from the supermarket, because it was a lot cheaper than Logistics prices.

It was different for wound dressings and thousands upon thousands of other similar things.

Nick_C

DUTR wrote: »

... to go on as if that is what will save the NHS, does deserve reward.

This is just one example of the wastage and inefficiency that exists within the NHS. We shouldn't just chuck more money at the NHS. They should be tackling these issues. We seem to need knowledgable outsiders to highlight them.

Pennywise

Nick_C wrote: »

This is just one example of the wastage and inefficiency that exists within the NHS. We shouldn't just chuck more money at the NHS. They should be tackling these issues. We seem to need knowledgable outsiders to highlight them.

Exactly this. There are loads of examples of little things that don't cost much in the big scheme of things, but add all these little things up and you'll soon be into the millions, if not billions.

DUTR

Pennywise wrote: »

Exactly this. There are loads of examples of little things that don't cost much in the big scheme of things, but add all these little things up and you'll soon be into the millions, if not billions.

The man on the telly said it was because of medical tourism, overweight, smokers and the aged that are depleting the resources.