The thing that disgusts me the most whan I go to a care or nursing home for a patient is the complete lack of sympathy that the care staff have for the patient. Its as if they are relieved to get the patient off their hands for a while. There's a guy in home near here who regularly gets chest pains. Although they have never come to anything and may well be part of his SD the care staff insist on giving him copius sprays of GTN. Then they wonder why his BP ends up in his boots and he complains of the pain in his head and call 999. A close second is their inability to send a carer with the patient. It's a regular thing to have a row with a care home manager when they say that they have no one to send with the patient. Come on people, this patient will be in A&E for a while, the nursing staff won't be able to sit with her all the time. Would they allow their grandparents to travel to a strange place, with people they don't know, to have things done to them that they may well not understand for hours on end? Their care responsibilities do not end at the door. The responsibility is to the patient (or client as they call them). The care industry in this country stinks.