New Year, New Challenges

摘要

Well, the New Year is here and I am embracing new challenges with a change in role at work and with BARNA. What does 2011 hold for us? Well, it has started badly with talks of further cuts to Public Service funding. I hear regularly of NHS funding issues, threats of job losses, consultation for redundancy and downgrading of roles. It is worrying that the workload does not diminish but they are asking more for even less. The NHS was created with one thing in mind – that everyone would have access to health care, which would be free at the point of need. I wonder what the creators of the NHS would think of how it has changed over the years. As a nurse, my focus is always patient care, but there are a lot of issues that attempt to interfere with this in the current health service. At the heart of the health service remains a reliable and caring team of dedicated professionals – long may this continue!