{"id":12640,"date":"2017-10-27T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/27\/thanks-but-no-thanks-carerooms-in-the-nhs-we-need-staff-not-beds-rachel-clarke\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:30:31","slug":"thanks-but-no-thanks-carerooms-in-the-nhs-we-need-staff-not-beds-rachel-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12640","title":{"rendered":"Thanks but no thanks, CareRooms. In the NHS we need staff, not beds | Rachel Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where do we even start with the Airbnbification of the NHS? Not only are there basic concerns about safety and accountability, it\u2019s not even useful\u2022 Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctorThere\u2019s only so much glumness a secretary of state for health can take. With Newsnight this week featuring harrowing footage of patients stacked up on trolleys in corridors in a Birmingham hospital, thank heavens, then, for the disruptive innovators. These tech-savvy go-getters see pound signs \u2013 sorry possibilities \u2013 where others only find doom and gloom, by promising patients nothing less than the Airbnbification of the NHS.That\u2019s right, if the startup CareRooms has its way, soon you too will be able to sleep soundly at night knowing that your granny has been safely discharged from her hip operation into the loving care of someone who clicked on a website, read its top line \u2013 \u201cEarn \u00a350 per room, per night as a host\u201d \u2013 and couldn\u2019t resist turning a spare room into cash. You just have to commend their entrepreneurial spirit. Some might say \u201cpatient safety disaster just waiting to happen\u201d, but I say, get with the digital transformation, people. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/27\/carerooms-nhs-staff-beds-airbnb\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks but no thanks, CareRooms. In the NHS we need staff, not beds | Rachel Clarke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do we even start with the Airbnbification of the NHS? Not only are there basic concerns about safety and accountability, it\u2019s not even useful\u2022 Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctorThere\u2019s only so much glumness a secretary of state for health can take. With Newsnight this week featuring harrowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}