Rota changes may put Blackburn physio patients at risk
Posted: 05 May 2015, 07:50PATIENTS could be put at risk by a new rota system for physiotherapists at East Lancashire’s hospitals, according to a whistleblower.
An anonymous letter, sent to the Lancashire Telegraph by a member of staff, said the new rota means several junior staff with ‘little or no experience’ of respiratory physiotherapy have been placed on an on-call rota to cover the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
This means ‘very vulnerable and ill patients’, including children, who require urgent respiratory physiotherapy could be seen by inexperienced staff at times when no senior physiotherapists are available, the letter claimed .
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An anonymous letter, sent to the Lancashire Telegraph by a member of staff, said the new rota means several junior staff with ‘little or no experience’ of respiratory physiotherapy have been placed on an on-call rota to cover the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
This means ‘very vulnerable and ill patients’, including children, who require urgent respiratory physiotherapy could be seen by inexperienced staff at times when no senior physiotherapists are available, the letter claimed .
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/ne ... s_at_risk/