Re: I have been upgraded...
Posted: 27 Jul 2021, 10:22
I am non official. They send their staff on day courses. Sometimes 2 days. Heres some from sunrise. https://www.sunrisemedical.co.uk/steps- ... ourse-list
To learn about powerchairs. But most of the people they send are about as technical as my mum. She could go on every course thay had. And while these are not very technical she wouldnt learn a damned thing from them. Female OTs or the odd ex mower guy working in the workshop who mostly swaps manual chair tyres are the same. Mostly.
They go through the very dumbed down motions. And listen. And watch vids. And try hands on stuff with a laptop etc. But they come away with 1% understanding in a very narrow field on a specific course/chair/programming thing/seating and control options. These are thinly disguised marketing tools to sell more of their stuff if you ask me. And they go back to their NHS coffee meetings and probably dont program anything at all for a month. And forgot the very limited amount they learned. But they are qualified with a bit of paper. You need good engineers, people that understand this stuff that are interested in the kind of thing. People with a natural aptitude for engineering and physics. And thats what most OTs and WCS staff are generally not.
So we get what we get. And they are ALLOWED the tools, no clue how to use them, or why one would want say the 6mph 4 pole motors programmed down to 4mph as per their speed remit in place of the actual 4mph motors. Little things that need a technical understanding. And they are lost. God forbid they have to figure out a complex alternative controls for someone or seating option changes etc.
In an ideal world you would employ only people that had a clue. Such as rover, myself, etc. All the OTs that assess and order and attempt to configure or program a chair NEED this level of knowledge. Probably 1 in 1000 actually has even half of that. But they dont employ the right people, its the NHS.Its a socialist run assylum. All they want to know is if they filled the diversity quota, if the person they employed has all their wants and needs and meetings and cake. Ability, and work ethic, and the ability to actually accept some responsibility is usually completely missing. They hang around in groups of 2 or 3 so nobody has to make a decision. Group think, assessements, panels, etc is how socialism works. And they will and do employ all those that the real capitalist world wont.
If I ran my doctors I would fire all the receptionists and those that do prescriptions same day and get competant staff. But its not run as a business and so they dont care how crap they are. They get paid regardless. Same across the whole NHS. There are some very good people. And some completely hopeless ones. All run in an unbelievably hopeless wasteful way.
To learn about powerchairs. But most of the people they send are about as technical as my mum. She could go on every course thay had. And while these are not very technical she wouldnt learn a damned thing from them. Female OTs or the odd ex mower guy working in the workshop who mostly swaps manual chair tyres are the same. Mostly.
They go through the very dumbed down motions. And listen. And watch vids. And try hands on stuff with a laptop etc. But they come away with 1% understanding in a very narrow field on a specific course/chair/programming thing/seating and control options. These are thinly disguised marketing tools to sell more of their stuff if you ask me. And they go back to their NHS coffee meetings and probably dont program anything at all for a month. And forgot the very limited amount they learned. But they are qualified with a bit of paper. You need good engineers, people that understand this stuff that are interested in the kind of thing. People with a natural aptitude for engineering and physics. And thats what most OTs and WCS staff are generally not.
So we get what we get. And they are ALLOWED the tools, no clue how to use them, or why one would want say the 6mph 4 pole motors programmed down to 4mph as per their speed remit in place of the actual 4mph motors. Little things that need a technical understanding. And they are lost. God forbid they have to figure out a complex alternative controls for someone or seating option changes etc.
In an ideal world you would employ only people that had a clue. Such as rover, myself, etc. All the OTs that assess and order and attempt to configure or program a chair NEED this level of knowledge. Probably 1 in 1000 actually has even half of that. But they dont employ the right people, its the NHS.Its a socialist run assylum. All they want to know is if they filled the diversity quota, if the person they employed has all their wants and needs and meetings and cake. Ability, and work ethic, and the ability to actually accept some responsibility is usually completely missing. They hang around in groups of 2 or 3 so nobody has to make a decision. Group think, assessements, panels, etc is how socialism works. And they will and do employ all those that the real capitalist world wont.
If I ran my doctors I would fire all the receptionists and those that do prescriptions same day and get competant staff. But its not run as a business and so they dont care how crap they are. They get paid regardless. Same across the whole NHS. There are some very good people. And some completely hopeless ones. All run in an unbelievably hopeless wasteful way.