Journalists!

 DZ has commented before on newspaper articles seem to be increasingly written by sloppy lazy journalists, and published by indifferent editors.

Here is another one.

To read the headline you'd think this was an event of clear negligence. As if the normal theatre procedures were not diligently followed, and the patient went on his way with everyone involved blissfully unaware of the problem. 

If you read the article it's obvious that, in fact that was not at all what happened. The end of surgery instrument check obviously did correctly identify that an instrument was missing, and the correct procedure for finding it was followed. While the patient was still anaesthetised. There was then a clinical decision made to leave it where it was and retrieve it at a subsequent procedure.

It's highly unlikely that the patient would come to any harm as a result of this, and in reality it's a complete non story. yet another case of some hack writer trying to generate copy out of nothing. 

Nurses

 So our nursing colleagues finally lost patience with the government over pay. What took them so long? 

This table shows starkly how poorly their pay has kept up with those who control the purse strings.

So nursing pay has risen only just over 11% over the last 12 years compared with almost 30% for MPs.  To put this in perspective inflation over the same period totals 34%, equating to a serious fall in real term earnings for Nurses. House price inflation over the same period exceeds 53%, so even more of their income has to go on simply providing a roof, eating further into their dwindling pay.

Only it seems a few months ago the nurses, and others were being lauded and applauded as "essential workers" putting their lives at risk to keep the NHS from total collapse. They know now that they have to make a stand to prevent this ongoing downward spiral. The various so called "independant" review bodies have totally failed in their function of ensuring fairness and adequate pay, having simply fallen into line as government puppets. 

And in those 12 years corporations continue to make record obscene profits and their CEOs take home seven figure salaries.

And don't even talk to me about fucking professional footballers, who can earn more for kicking a ball around for 90 minutes than a nurse for a year's work.

Oh dear, did you hurt yourself you fucking parasitic pansy!