Please read and share this. It’s not uncritical of Labour, but it’s absolutely on point about the need for Labour to make forceful use of the huge piles of ammunition available for shooting down this lying, robbing government.
Please read and share this. It’s not uncritical of Labour, but it’s absolutely on point about the need for Labour to make forceful use of the huge piles of ammunition available for shooting down this lying, robbing government.
Thanks very much!
It’s a pretty rum do working in the NHS if you have any commitment to it. This is because of the “creative destruction” and endless reorganisation and now barely concealed privatisation that is going on around us as we just try to do our bloody jobs! We, and a vast majority of patients who are very unsettled by all this (and any local catastrophes that look imminent) are desperate for Mr Milliband and Mr Burnham to climb off the fence and start beating up the government on the various bits of nonsense that are going on, including the arrival of “special administrators” in perfectly good hospitals – which I would remind you are there because they are of value to the local community, not because they are good at competing with other hospitals serving adjacent communities (or should be). None of these can set the prices for what they do despite wildly different circumstances and histories so how can they “go into administration” I ask you. In a stitch-up that’s how. This is like letting the Vogons build an interplanetary highway through the earth because we didn’t get around to pressing the button that would blow up their spaceship. Come on Ed and Andy – please, please, please start putting the boot in and don’t worry about the New Labour brigade – they’ll cope.
Stafford police had criminal prima facie
evidence in my case of fraud and
neglect!!well before mass exposure of
needless deaths as indeed robert francis qc whom noted very concerned about york nhs trust denying insulin.
Investigations ect.infact my evidence
widely circulated inwhich needless
DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.
Jan brooks has an going police investigation timsanguish in which
Ring mr julian ziem
ann at stafford police
professional standards or the chief constable if you wish .julie bayley
is not a fantasist i read the abuse and
harrassment myself.whether to proceed with prosecution is ultimately the decision of the chief constable.not to
proceed does not mean there wasn’t
evidence!.
The posts here which I’ve read haven’t expressed doubts about genuine cases of neglect or cover-ups or bullying of whistleblowers – all of which must be fully investigated and the real causes and culprits (esp. if the cause isn’t systemic) laid bare.
The posts instead challenge exaggerated claims which have clearly been used to deceive the public and are still being used to focus attention away from the real causes (which, as a result, aren’t being sufficiently addressed, like dangerously low actual nurse numbers per shift) in order to persuade the public that the only solutions lie elsewhere: dramatic, black & white, binary closures & sell-offs.
These eye-catching headline solutions fit with policies already espoused by this Govt. and veil the deep-seated issues which outsourcing to commercial providers can only worsen because the necessary transparency required to investigate avoidable deaths or neglect (for example) is then totally missing, a far worse future situation:
1. Freedom of information requests are already delayed or blocked in the public sector but haven’t even been made compulsory for private health providers, aren’t a prerequisite for NHS outsourced contracts & can only be pursued via an indirect labyrinthine series of bodies.
2. The much-vaunted ban on gagging clauses within the NHS hasn’t been made a prerequisite for external providers or even as a condition for contracts awarded when outsourcing services.
3. Contract law as applied to subcontractors is already a minefield and, particularly in relation to services subcontracted by private providers or by NHS Trusts themselves, it is already clear that the responsibility for any malpractice covered up in the private sector will be dispersed and next to impossible to identify or enforce. Causes, culprits & compensation will forever recede and hide out of reach or be sidestepped or unacceptably delayed.
The Govt. has no incentive to enforce transparency on providers in the private sector. Instead it actively helps, encourages & trains them and does nothing which may reduce the attraction for contract bidders.
Rather than vigorously representing the health interests of the public, the Govt. appears bent on undermining them to suit an even less accountable structure.
Please read with a clear head the posts here Steve has carefully researched before assuming that his aim is not to help the most vulnerable or those most dependent on a vital and still-efficient public service. Nothing is further from the truth.
Those who attack or smear him today will rue this day once they realise the real target was much more powerful, insidious and dangerous – and survived mostly unopposed elsewhere.
For there to be a prosecution you need to know who to prosecute, and for that you need evidence. The only “evidence” offered by Julie Bailey were claims made to the media, not the police, who had to approach her, not the other way around. And then they found no evidence of what she had been claiming happened. The “hate campaign” was deliberate and timed attempt to take attention from the Stafford March, garner sympathy and to spitefully smear the town that had failed to support her. You’re right, she’s not a fantasist – but she has been deceitful and manipulative.