While I am aware that nurses are not saints or angels, I was horrified when I read this story. Of course, when a colleague leaves for a new job, I am sure that in many professions there will be some fun and games prior to a leaving party. However, when, according to the National Patient’s Safety Agency, NHS malnutrition incidents rose from 15,473 in 2005 to 29,138 in 2007 and overall, during this period almost 70,000 malnutrition and starvation “patient incidents” were recorded, do these nurses really think that it is appropriate to be wasting the very supplements that could be preventing some patients from starving?
This is what happens when there is a system where everything is thought of as being “free”. Price something at zero and it is valued by no-one!
