I know I’m starting to bore people.
Mid Staffordshire NHS trust is probably a subject that will
drive my readers away.
So, I thought I’d blog
about it again.
The problem last night and this morning was a series of
interviews which got me angry all over again – and if the early or unnecessary deaths
of some 1200 people doesn’t make us angry what does?
I watched the deputy head of the Royal College of Nursing
justifying a visit the head of the RCN made to Stafford hospital at the
beginning of the scandal, where he walked through a picket line of grieving
relatives demanding justice, inspected a couple of wards and congratulated the
nursing staff on the fine standard of care they were showing. His name is Peter
Carter and the relatives are demanding that he goes.
This morning I heard a spokesman for the RCN saying that
there were some 46 pending disciplinary cases arising from the scandal, but
only one Nurse was considered a danger and had been suspended. So all the
others are still practising?
A spokesman for the General Medical Council of the British
Medical Association stated that while there were still some pending cases
awaiting disciplinary tribunals, over 20 Doctors had been dealt with by way of “letters”
and one had had a restriction placed on his practising.
Meanwhile the Director of Nursing responsible for the two
hospitals standard of care (that’s 1200 premature deaths) had “No case to
Answer” after her hearing before the RCN.
The regional head of the area at the time, Sir Brian
Nicholson, has now been promoted to be Chief Executive of the entire NHS.
Everyone interviewed, made profuse apologies, talking about
lessons learnt. Plainly there is a course somewhere which, at great expense to
the taxpayer, teaches spokespersons how to appear to exude empathy, sympathy
and whatever other platitudes are needed to shut us up.
I think it was Louis B. Meyer, the Hollywood mogul, who
famously stated that to get on in the movies;
“what you need above all is sincerity. If you can fake that,
you’ve got it made”.
It is a national Disgrace.
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
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