Originally Posted by Air Pig
Do we have to revive this discussion, it's been done before on here. To reiterate you would need a military hospital of at least 800 beds to be viable in terms of scale of economies and staffing. Staffing being the most important.
The present poly trauma patient being admitted into the QE, requires so many teams of clinicians of all specialities it's untrue, then that does not account for all the support behind the scenes.
This is 22 years on, it happened, move forward not backwards, look at the work being done in Bastion and the QE, lets be proud of what Defence Medical Services are doing. The old system today would not be fit for purpose, it did not have the depth of services required and still had to use agreements with the NHS.
Regards
Air pig ex PMRAFNS.
Very well put and whilst we all have our memories.... Drifts back to times spent in both RNH Stonehouse and RNH Haslar
(how those nurses put up with us hot blooded sailors deserves a medal)
Times have moved on and as Air Pig has so eloquently described the costs of equipment alone would be horrendous.
To me THE MOST IMPORTANT issues are the next of kin be close to the patient and the nursing staff that look after our sick and injured be service personnel as they MUST have that black service sense of humour.
I will never forget a sailor telling a beautiful nursing sister that he was dying as rigor mortis had started to set in!! We all nearly fell out of our beds with laughter as he demonstrated the outset of this condition
(His excuse for his behaviour was that he was only just coming round after having his lower leg amputated)