Mantenere le stampelle costa £ 70.000 all’anno, afferma NHS Trust
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr5v175pmdo
di AnselaJonla
Mantenere le stampelle costa £ 70.000 all’anno, afferma NHS Trust
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr5v175pmdo
di AnselaJonla
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I’ve been on crutches twice. Both times the crutches were issued at an A&E located in a different trust than the one that covers my area. You’d think this wouldn’t make a difference, but apparently it does. As it’s not one of _their_ crutches, they don’t want them back. Not that I’ve tried with the current pair, as I’m still using them intermittently. (I want to trust my knee, but I don’t trust it yet.)
Yeah, how much does refusing to take them back cost?
Just bought my own personally. £20 & sorted me for years. Knee is mostly okay now but it plays up sometimes.
Or as a rough calculation 0.000036% of the NHS budget.
Worked at a scrapyard for some years, we would take multiple pairs daily, sometimes 10+ in a day for the aluminium pile, probably worth £1 scrap value.
I always thought it must cost the NHS a fortune, seems people just throw them out after they are healed.
A problem they’ve created themselves since they refuse to take them back.
In the early 2010s, my grandfather’s girlfriend injured herself and used a walker and crutches for a couple of months. Both items had stickers with a phone number to call for collection once they were no longer needed. When she called, she was told they no longer offered a collection service, and that she had to drop them off at a specific hospital in our county.
At the time, I was dating someone who lived five minutes from that hospital, so I loaded the walker and crutches into my car and drove them there. When I arrived, the staff informed me they couldn’t accept the items and gave me another number to call for collection. When I dialed that number, I was told my location was too rural for them to arrange a pick-up.
I’m 99% sure that the crutches and walker are stuffed in the corner of my grandfather’s garage.
Which is nothing compared to what I’ve seen and I’m just an allied healthcare boi
I tried to return my dad’s crutches and they didn’t want them. So what can you do? Charities don’t want them either in case they’re damaged. So to the tip they went.
They’re paying much more than that for multiple useless staff roles.
I’ve had a pair of crutches for 18 years since breaking my ankle. In that time I’ve used them when I threw out my back twice, had a sprained ankle 3 times and also my family members and a few friends have borrowed them.
All of those times, having access to crutches for a few days has saved any of us needing to go to see a doctor/hospital so I see it as I’ve SAVED the nhs £££
What’s this passive aggressive tone? I’ve been given crutches twice from our local hospital and ended up giving them to charity because they wouldn’t have them back. I do understand why though. So why is this trust implying it’s a bad thing not to bring them back. We’ve tried!
That’s probably a lot cheaper than the logistics of shipping them about all over the country when people can’t get back to the place they got them from easily.
My mum was on crutches and had a boot when she broke her ankle. We tried multiple times to return them to the same hospital she went to and her GP but they refused to take them back. I don’t know if it differs across different NHS areas, but some refuse to take reusable items back.
Our local NHS trust has a deal with Boots that you can drop it in to one of their larger stores – far more convenient!
Only 70k? Sack a middle-manager and keep the crutches
Everytime I or someone in my family have needed crutches the hospital has refused to take them back.
The dear good lady was given crutches after surgery on her foot. They didn’t want them back. We tried all the local hospitals as well as where she had the surgery. Nope. They are sat in a junk pile in the garage
My Mum has had various mobility and other aids over the last few years. She went into care home and I tried, multiple times, to return them.
The relevant agencies all made appointments to pick them up- they never did, or just told me to bin them.
In the end of having them kicking around I just donated to charity shops.
I’m surprised at all the comments saying that their local trust didn’t want them back.
When my sister wanted to chuck hers out after she used them, I just drove to A&E and left them at the front desk. The nurses were happy to have a set returned, and that was it.
These articles are designed to make you think the wastage in he NHS is because of you.
The wastage in the NHS is in the thousands of subcontracts given to dodgy opaque healthcare third party providers
The problem no one seems to be talking about is that equipment services in the NHS are now sub-contracted out to private companies who’s collection services are even worse than their delivery services (which are abysmal and a contributing factor to waiting lists).
The NHS of course foot the bill (and get all the negative publicity about their budget and inefficiencies/wastage) but the councils decide on who gets the contracts and what is an acceptable level of service…
This is without going into whether the equipment that is returned actually gets refurbished and re-issued or ends up in landfill…
Like most criticisms I read of the NHS no one talks about the privatised elements and only see it as one big entity that can be fixed with… more privatisation.
0.0000416% of the NHS’s annual expenditure.
Worthy of a whole news article?
I think one set of crutches would cost that in the USA
I got told to donate mine to a charity when I tried to give them back
70k isn’t even a rounding error in NHS finances. It’s essentially no cost at all.
I kept hold of mine because you never know when you’ll need them again.
Aye well maybe they should let ya give em back then, spanners.
After I finished with mine I literally could not give them away. Hospital wouldn’t have them, doctors surgery wouldn’t have them, even tried donating to a hospice and red cross and they wouldn’t have them.
Mental. It’s a stick. Spray the feckin thing with dettol and give it to someone else ffs.