My grandfather recently spent some time in station 10 at Ayr hospital. Although after getting to know the staff they were lovely, staff morale was incredibly low, the lowest I have seen. The ward is heavy with patients waiting on care packages or waiting to go home, many with dementia which is a challenging job itself as well as giving patients medical care. Same staff seen on duty constantly, patients getting one to one but no one else available outside the ward as they were quite clearly run off their feet, which means it’s challenging to deliver a high standard of care.
If this is going to be run as care of the elderly with or without dementia I feel there has to be better staffing levels, a volunteer post wouldn’t go amiss either to keep good stimulation going for these patients and adding a radio at least in each room for some background noise to try lift some morale.
"Staff morale low and very limited staffing levels"
About: University Hospital Ayr / General Medicine University Hospital Ayr General Medicine KA6 6DX
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