•‘Building on the report of the first inquiry, the story it tells is, first and foremost, of appalling suffering of many patients. This was primarily caused by a serious failure on the part of a provider Trust Board. It did not listen sufficiently to its patients and staff or ensure the correction of deficiencies brought to the Trust’s attention.
• (Francis 2013)
• The Francis Report outlined:
• The way staff systemically became detached, cruel, and disengaged from their responsibilities
•the lack of compassion from nursing staff for their patients.
• The response has been calling for compassionate treatment, courses in compassion and even compassion therapy.
• What has gone so wrong that a high court judge has to write a report emphasising the need for compassion in nursing? Is this not a given
Proper healthcare goes beyond the physical needs of the patient.
• It has to help patients and their relatives manage the anxieties associated with illness, dependency, death and psychological disturbance.
• To provide good care, staff need to feel supported and valued by a management structure that understands the nature of their work.
• They also need clinical and managerial structures that help them contain the inherent anxieties in their work
“I’m beyond caring!”
Pressure on front-line staff in the NHS
Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He worked in mental health services and was first a psychiatric nurse and then an adult psychotherapist in the NHS for 40 years and has a particular interest in the application of psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. He was head of the nursing discipline for 20 years and Clinical Lead of the Adult and Adolescent Departments at the Tavistock & Portman Trust for 5 years.
He is the author of two books applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. Making Room for Madness in Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings.
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