Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Post traumatic stress in male combat veterans: Laurie Taylor talks to Nick Caddick, Research Assistant at Loughborough University, and co-author of a study exploring the relationship between masculinity, militarism and mental health. Do conventional notions of male bravery and resilience impede soldiers' ability to access to support? They're joined by Anthony King, Professor in Sociology at the University of Exeter.
Also, managing beds in the NHS. Pressure on beds is an acute challenge to the health service. Davina Allen, Professor of Healthcare Organisation at Cardiff University, discusses her study into bed utilisation from the point of view of UK hospital nurses. How is access to beds granted or denied and who decides?
Producer: Natalia Fernandez.
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| 0:43.0 | Hello. Well I knew I was in danger of becoming a slum landlord and I realized that one of my |
| 0:47.9 | student lodgers in York used to wait quietly in his narrow bed until he heard |
| 0:52.0 | my other student lodger leave for his early morning swim |
| 0:55.3 | and would then rush across the landing and jump in between his still warm sheets. |
| 0:59.6 | And there's more room he told me when I protested, I keep falling out of my bed. |
| 1:03.4 | But we didn't really have to wait until Alan Aikbourne's wonderful bedroom fast to |
| 1:07.4 | realize that there was comedy to be found in the subject of bed occupancy. |
| 1:11.4 | Popular music had got there already. |
| 1:13.7 | There were ten in the bed and the little one said roll over, roll over. |
| 1:18.7 | So they all roll over and one out there were nine in the bed and the little one said of course of course, of course, of course, the real life drama about bed occupancy is played |
| 1:27.8 | out not in song or on the stage, but in the wards of NHS hospitals where bed management is an ever-present problem, |
| 1:35.2 | one which some have suggested is really all the fault of some especially |
| 1:38.8 | recalcitrance and individuals. Earlier this year on the today, John Humphreys was at pains to dismiss any such handy scapegoating. |
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