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Local lass

mmm bit over the top or was it?

taken from the gazette web site

A group of A&E doctors and nurses at a Wiltshire hospital have been suspended after bosses caught them posting photographs of themselves playing 'The Lying Down Game' on Facebook.

Seven staff at Great Western Hospital, in Swindon, allegedly took part in the internet craze by lying down on resuscitation trollies, ward floors and a heli-pad.

The group, from the hospital's A & E department and Acute Assessment Unit, had been working a night shift and posted photographs of the stunt on Facebook.

Hospital bosses were alerted to the prank by a whistleblower and the medics may now face the sack after being suspended on full pay.

Contestants playing 'The Lying Down Game' must lie face down with the palms of their hands against their sides and the tips of their toes pointing at the ground.

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There is no way they should have been suspended.they work in a high stress job and see sights that we would only see in our night mares .they were only having a little fun and no harm was done there was no risk to the patients .and patient care wasnt affected in any way.
i have had numous appointments cancelled there cos of lack of staff  so it just seems silly.
99 per cent of people has messed around at work at one time or another.
GTB

It's something of nothing really. Let's hope these NHS bosses are squeaky clean themselves if they are going to start sacking people over a daft stunt that ultimately did no one any harm.
Biggles

Talking about OTT in the NHS

I was in Northlands Surgery yesterday and theres now notices about the new NHS Guidelines and now all the magazines and books and toys have been removed because of Swine Flu i guess

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win2212

That will teach them for posting private jokes on a public web site.
Chepfer

Though its harmless fun .. perhaps posting it was a little unproffesional of them !
Local lass

Biggles wrote:
Talking about OTT in the NHS

I was in Northlands Surgery yesterday and theres now notices about the new NHS Guidelines and now all the magazines and books and toys have been removed because of Swine Flu i guess

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ive seen that ,funny thing is over the summer holidays i had to take my son to the a and e in chippenham as he broke his wrist  then had to go to swindon.both these places still had the magerzines .
i can never understand why the hospital dosnt install like they have at the travel stops on the moter way .
you can go in to the toilet you dont even have to touch the toilet its all done by sensers ever the taps.
surley that would help the spread of most germs.
daffy

yes this was funny but they are putting patiants healh at risk by lying down in there uniforms and then they will go and treat a patiant ,no wonder hospitial bugs are on the increase.
i agree they should of been suspended.
Local lass

daffy wrote:
yes this was funny but they are putting patiants healh at risk by lying down in there uniforms and then they will go and treat a patiant ,no wonder hospitial bugs are on the increase.
i agree they should of been suspended.


no there not.the doctors and the nurses when in a room get a clean disposable apron on when they treat a patient.in context though was it really worth suspending them al when gwh is short of nurses and doctors.
daffy

There still putting vunarable patiants lifes at risk by cross contamination ,that little joke went to far .
Its not a very good advert for the great western with staff pulling stunts like that,i dont see that they had any choice but to suspend them ,if they was seen to do nothing about this what reasurance does that give the public .
Local lass

The one thing they should never have done was to post it on the net .its no difference than people who work in old peoples home taking the ! out of those that are there and chucking food about.
no matter where you work you have a little fun .they put no lifes at risk
daffy

But these did put peoples lives at risk ! they have done infection control courses ,no wonder bugs are on the increase .
yes you can have a laugh at work but not at the expence of patiants lifes .
rosco

daffy wrote:
But these did put peoples lives at risk ! they have done infection control courses ,no wonder bugs are on the increase .
yes you can have a laugh at work but not at the expence of patiants lifes .


I think you're reading a bit too much into it really -  I don't see how patients' lives were at risk.
daffy

looks like you havnt done a infection control course either ! look on the N.H.S website for infection control .
rosco

daffy wrote:
looks like you havnt done a infection control course either ! look on the N.H.S website for infection control .


Whatever people do at hospital patients have a risk of infection, I can't honestly believe that health professionals would risk this.

And neither do their employers it seems, as they've been reinstated:

Quote:
'Lying down' NHS staff reinstated  

Staff were suspended for playing the 'lying down' game
Seven members of staff at Swindon's Great Western Hospital suspended for playing an internet game that involved them lying down have returned to work.

Great Western Hospitals Trust said it had made a decision not to dismiss any of those involved in the prank.

"We're glad the staff are back doing what they do best. They need to understand unprofessional behaviour is unacceptable," a spokeswoman said.

The images, since removed, were posted on the social networking site Facebook.


 All staff are now back at work, there have been no dismissals

Hospital trust spokeswoman
The game involves being pictured lying down with arms by your side and toes pointing towards the floor.

Extra points are awarded for being pictured in unusual settings.

It is understood staff were pictured lying down on the hospital's resuscitation trolleys, ward floors and the Wiltshire Air Ambulance helipad.

The suspensions followed allegations of unprofessional conduct while on night shift duty in the hospital during a weekend in August.

'Appropriate manner'

Speaking at the time, the trust said the incident had not involved patients and it was satisfied that patient care was not compromised.

"The trust has completed the disciplinary hearings for emergency department staff involved in the 'lying down' game," the spokeswoman said.

"All staff are now back at work, there have been no dismissals.

"We aim to deliver safe, high quality care for each of our patients and to achieve this we expect staff to behave in an appropriate manner at all times.

"As a hospital we want to ensure high professional standards are maintained at all times."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8306111.stm

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