I realise at a glance it seems rather cool, but this is frankly terrifying. It reads more like a warzone situation than a hospital in what is a highly developed country.
I knew a registered nurse in surgery area. One of here roles was to lay out the surgery equipment and to count it all back afterwards. There were others qualified to do this too and they shared the role. In the end to cut costs the trust reduced the number with that rank / training / qualification to allow lesser trained nursing ranks to do it with a sign off by the qualified nurse. Supposedly they were to double check the kit against the list but time pressures, remember significant reduction in that level in that ward, meant that those qualified that were left just signed the sheet off without checking. I wonder how much stuff got left in patients back then. All I know I always chose to go to a different hospital!!
BTW that was actually about 2000 to 2005 when IIRC NHS were actually funded relatively better compared to what they had to do.
PS do not ask any NHS workers to tell you tales from their work. It will scare you and shock you!
It has always been so!! Also, don't get ill if you can help it!!
