The NHS

Oh and the NHS are on target etc etc? Yesterday, visiting Mum in Wythenshawe Hospital, short of staff on the ward as usual, one male patient escaped. As one nurse said, we've better things to do than go running all over the hospital. Turned out he fell, covered in blood, went home, police called (don't they have better things to do?) and he was back in A&E. And the patient probably was disorientated, so may not have been totally compus mentus, just guessing. And then the patient in the next bed to mum, with a catheter, smeared her excrement all over herself, so two nurses, I'd only seen three on the ward, had to completely wash her down and change the bed and this wasn't the first time, as the escapee wasn't the first time either, and the evening meal was about to be served. As the male nurse said, 'It's not fair on the patients and it's not fair on us.' So. The NHS are on track are they?