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Overworked staff 'sleeping on job'
Exhausted staff caught sleeping, as more and more hours and duties are being heaped on hospital employees
Exhausted and overworked staff at a London hospital featured on the documentary 24 Hours in A&E have been caught sleeping on the job, it was revealed yesterday.
Staff at King's College Hospital, made famous by the Channel 4 documentary, are so stretched that they have been catching 40 winks during shifts - a that trend is symptomatic of the entire NHS according to the Unite union.
A national newspaper reported having seen an internal document that warned hospital workers: "There have been a number of recent incidents where staff have been found asleep on duty, or it has been reported that staff have been asleep on duty."
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