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All the following have been overheard - staff discussing patients etc..
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Details: Female, took and over dose and admitted to Grantham, now sees CPN at the Willows, a professionals meeting is being held to discuss her.All her children taken into care, 2 are disabled, one with Downs Syndrome looked after by family. Her name was said but I'll not put it up here. I find these over heard conversations very upsetting.Any one any ideas what to do?
Well I was at a meeting and was in the toilet. Over heard some staff being very careless about who they were talking about.Apparently the lady speaking had sacked a member of staff (last year I think) for doing private work in the trust or in the trusts time.It was a male psychologist she was talking about.Also talking about a service user who had PTSD but now thought they had a personality disorder in which case they would at last get rid of her as they no longer treat this. They find her a pain in the back side to summarise what they were saying.In both cases names were mentioned - I know the name of the service user and the psychologist who was sacked.Have you over heard anything interesting? No names please.
I was speaking to my CPN on the phone once and she put the phone down to look for a report. I clearly over heard two other staff in the background discussing a GP who had phoned and asked about a women who was very distressed because her husband had died. They very sarcastically said that did he think they were a bereavement service and they didn't treat bereavement.
I often over hear the receptionists talking about patients.
If you go to meeings representing service users the staff are often very careless about talking about other patients. I have heard lots of things I shouldn't have heard about other patients.
The worst thing I ever overheard was in a toilet in the Lincolnshire Oak in Sleaford. Two staff were discussing a mother who had a son with Turettes and autism. She was apparently a chronic complainer with a very rude know it all husband who was a psychiatrist.And yes I did know the name too and a lot of very personal details.
I was in the waiting room - or entrance hall as it really is- in my clinic and the receptionists were pulling faces and making rude comments about a man who had just gone in to see his nurse. It made me wonder what they would say about me when I went in and I was very upset. Must admit I didn't know the man's name though.
I've had the same as one of the above - I represent service users at various meetings, conferences etc and often over hear the professional staff discussing patients by name.
Well I know that someone in Stamford attacked a psychiatrsit and has been banned from the resource centre. How do I know? The staff were discussing it in the queue in the shop behind me.
Yep - staff are bad at putting the phone down to check things and you can hear conversations in the background. I know that the CAMHS unit get referrals which should have gone to adult services and take ages passing them on to the right service which means the adult service are left with hardly any time to fit the patient in within the set time limits. The certainly do not like this at all judging by the conversation I over heard.
I think I over heard the same conversation from a psycologist as was posted before - heaven help the woman who was raped, lives in Sleaford and has PTSD - they are setting you up as a socopath or something that sounds like that then they are going to declare you untreatable - she has it all worked out -I think a well meaning psychiatrsit played right into her hands as she was very gleeful about the whole thing and that is why psychologists are not the best people to see - after all that is hardly a professional attitude is it. I over heard the bit about sacking her own staff as well - something about private appointments in NHS time.
Any one any ideas what we can do about this without telling the trust who we are.
Posted on our local blog.
Details: Female, took and over dose and admitted to Grantham, now sees CPN at the Willows, a professionals meeting is being held to discuss her.All her children taken into care, 2 are disabled, one with Downs Syndrome looked after by family. Her name was said but I'll not put it up here. I find these over heard conversations very upsetting.Any one any ideas what to do?
Well I was at a meeting and was in the toilet. Over heard some staff being very careless about who they were talking about.Apparently the lady speaking had sacked a member of staff (last year I think) for doing private work in the trust or in the trusts time.It was a male psychologist she was talking about.Also talking about a service user who had PTSD but now thought they had a personality disorder in which case they would at last get rid of her as they no longer treat this. They find her a pain in the back side to summarise what they were saying.In both cases names were mentioned - I know the name of the service user and the psychologist who was sacked.Have you over heard anything interesting? No names please.
I was speaking to my CPN on the phone once and she put the phone down to look for a report. I clearly over heard two other staff in the background discussing a GP who had phoned and asked about a women who was very distressed because her husband had died. They very sarcastically said that did he think they were a bereavement service and they didn't treat bereavement.
I often over hear the receptionists talking about patients.
If you go to meeings representing service users the staff are often very careless about talking about other patients. I have heard lots of things I shouldn't have heard about other patients.
The worst thing I ever overheard was in a toilet in the Lincolnshire Oak in Sleaford. Two staff were discussing a mother who had a son with Turettes and autism. She was apparently a chronic complainer with a very rude know it all husband who was a psychiatrist.And yes I did know the name too and a lot of very personal details.
I was in the waiting room - or entrance hall as it really is- in my clinic and the receptionists were pulling faces and making rude comments about a man who had just gone in to see his nurse. It made me wonder what they would say about me when I went in and I was very upset. Must admit I didn't know the man's name though.
I've had the same as one of the above - I represent service users at various meetings, conferences etc and often over hear the professional staff discussing patients by name.
Well I know that someone in Stamford attacked a psychiatrsit and has been banned from the resource centre. How do I know? The staff were discussing it in the queue in the shop behind me.
Yep - staff are bad at putting the phone down to check things and you can hear conversations in the background. I know that the CAMHS unit get referrals which should have gone to adult services and take ages passing them on to the right service which means the adult service are left with hardly any time to fit the patient in within the set time limits. The certainly do not like this at all judging by the conversation I over heard.
I think I over heard the same conversation from a psycologist as was posted before - heaven help the woman who was raped, lives in Sleaford and has PTSD - they are setting you up as a socopath or something that sounds like that then they are going to declare you untreatable - she has it all worked out -I think a well meaning psychiatrsit played right into her hands as she was very gleeful about the whole thing and that is why psychologists are not the best people to see - after all that is hardly a professional attitude is it. I over heard the bit about sacking her own staff as well - something about private appointments in NHS time.
Any one any ideas what we can do about this without telling the trust who we are.