The NHS

Now it is the question of the use of agency staff to be used to cover staff shortages, it is all well and good the government saying that more nurses should be recruited to cover these shortfalls, many occur over the weekend,  most people do not like to work weekends, but in the caring profession it is a must, but hold on!, do we not mean we need more nursing assistants?, they are the people who do most of the caring on the ward, one problem here is that many have very poor English, so can be as much of a danger rather than a benefit, Nurses now spend most of their time in university leaving with a nursing qualification but little or no experience of patient care and to make things worse to move forward you need masters degree, I have to say you do not need a degree to be able to care for sick people, many nurses new to the profession see it as below themselves to see to a patient needs, I have seen patients in great pain begging to be helped  left for an hour before any pain relief was given, so just how does the government think that by employing more nurses means a better service it will not a radical rethink needs to be undertaken taking into account the views of the patient as they know just what is happening far more than ministers do, the information they are given is in fact flawed, doctored and taken a little out of context to make things look different to what they really are.