susan heppenstall

I think the ridculous story lines revolve around the staff and their personal problems. Dom features most weeks with his traumatic personal life. Boring!!! The staff manage to admit family members and seem to get priority treatment and theatre time if required, along with staff who also need medical attention. Staff are recruited without any checks and interviews and are usually friends and close acquaintances of friends or family. Is this how the NHS is now operating? no wonder people complain. I must say in my 42yrs working in the NHS I have never witnessed anything like this. I watched this when Mayer was Consultant and the programme was more realistic and interesting. The only person who seems to realise what goes on, and is interested in patient care, is Jaq, everyone else brings all their private personal problems to work. She is the only one dedicated to her position. Even Serena keeps a bottle of whisky or wine stashed in a drawer for when she is stressed, usually when her love life goes wrong. Whatever is happening in our hospitals? this is not supposed to be fact but things like this don't happen in real life and it makes a mockery of the NHS. Everybody I worked with concentrated on all the public in general and left their problems at home. If they had any problems they were discussed in private with a senior staff member. I am so frustrated when watching this programme, but Jaq saves the day. Love her attitude.