Comment, no comment.

It’s been 24 hours of ‘No Comment’ from the Care Quality Commission – have a look at the last two Blogs and you’ll see why. My last entry was written as I watched Channel 4 News’s Jon Snow interviewing the new Chair of the CQC – he was pretty lowly, and so he should be.

Less lowly was the new Chief Executive of the CQC, who was interviewed by a fairly annoyed Jeremy Paxman on BBC 2’s ‘Newsnight’; where he gave the excuse that he had been given legal advice that they couldn’t reveal the guilty men/women, because of the Data Protection Act.

If I had been more committed I would have Blogged that this was designed to protect innocent members of the public from having their personal details publicised, not to protect wrongdoers.

This morning on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the Data Commisioner said just that – the CQC is seeking alternative legal opinion but it’s still no comment at the moment. 

As soon as the netizens publish the names, you will read them here.

 

Meanwhile:

 

I’ve had a comment – it doesn’t happen very often. It happened to be a nice one but that doesn’t really matter. I don’t mind people disagreeing with me, I don’t mind an argument - I welcome it.

In fact what bothers me is when people have a look, disagree and then flounce off. Put in a comment – disagree, stick around and argue.

I don’t even mind an insult or two; just no insults based on race, sex, age or disability – they get cut out.

Click on ‘comment’ at the end of a Blog entry and off you go…..

Don’t hide behind ‘No Comment’, like the CQC.

Neil Harris

(a don’t stop till you drop production)

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Unbelievable

Sometimes it gets so bad you can’t believe it – this morning was one of those.

Police are currently investigating deaths of Mothers and babies at maternity at Furness General Hospital - there are some 30 lawsuits pending – babies and mothers who died.

It turns out that in 2010, as a result of complaints, the Care Quality Commission launched an enquiry into maternity services at the University Hospital Trust of Morecombe – the body in charge.

Managers at the CQC subsequently deleted the report to save the reputation of the organisation, as they had given the hospital and trust the all clear, recommending its maternity services to patients as safe.

Now, all this is about to be exposed in an independent consultants report, the Chair and Chief Executive of the CQC have resigned ‘without compensation’, although their pensions are intact.

In the report a senior manager of the CQC was quoted as saying;

“Are you kidding me? This can never be in a public domain nor subject to a Freedom of Information request. Read my lips”.

The report was destroyed.

The current Chief Executive of CQC has denied there was a cover up but has confirmed that everyone who dealt with this has now gone and the organisation has made a fresh start.

More to the point, it turns out that inspections were carried out by people who had no relevant medical experience – in some cases their qualification was that they were “firemen or police officers”.

I've been fairly ill and had been thinking of giving up the struggle - there are other things to do in life, after all. But this is really unbelievable.  

 

Neil Harris

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