Preside over at least 1200 deaths?
Then walk away with a £2m pension pot
As arrogant as it is, there was never going to be any other outcome. No you cannot resist. If you attempt to keep your income from being looted and given to him you will be visited by men ready to do violence on his behalf.
The NHS does not put the needs of patients at the centre of its focus. Or so says its Chief Executive!
“The head of the health service pleaded ignorance yesterday to damning evidence that patients were failed on his watch. As he again faced down calls to quit his post, Sir David Nicholson was accused of presiding over of a ‘see no evil, hear no evil’ culture in the NHS. This, the chief executive admitted, culminated in patients ‘not being at the centre of the way the NHS operated’.
So, the guy at the top of this neo-Stalinist monstrosity confirms that it is NOT about the patients. Of course it isn’t. It is about first and foremost about protecting itself, feathering the nests of those who inhabit its upper echelons, and ensuring patients do not get in the way of these pressing priorities! Of course Nicholson SHOULD resign in shame and so should all those others who preside over the killing fields of the NHS. Those politicians who also sat back whilst thousands of un-necesssary deaths occurred should also face arrest and prosecution for their gross negligence. Let’s face it, the NHS has confirmed that despite (or maybe because of ) ££ BILLIONS being pumped in, huge increases in staff levels, it does not care much for the people that lie in its wards. For that reasons alone it should be axed.
Sir David Nicholson, Chief Commissar of the Mid-Staffs NHS Primary Slaughterhouse, today admitted “personal failings” for the 1200 innocents killed by his regime. In testimony to the House of Commons Health Select Committee, he denied that people aren’t held to account in the NHS and that he won’t be resigning to spend more time with his enormous pension. That’s accountability, apparatchik style. No, accountability is for lesser functionaries, who under Nicholson were bullied and intimidated into silence.
In fact, so keen is the one time member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (you really couldn’t make it up) to hang on, today he threw his erstwhile Labour Party comrades under the tractor. Sir David said that “national targets meant that NHS managers had to concentrate on issues like casualty waiting times and hospital “superbugs” like MRSA”, and that “during that period, across the NHS as a whole, patients were not the centre of the way the system operated.”
Well there’s the problem. It’s the collective which matters to the bureaucracy. It’s covering your parasitical arse which matters to the bureaucrat. Patients do not matter. The NHS remains a Stalinist collective driven by state-central commands. It’s all bumper turnip crops and iron ore production, not what consumers want. Until we get our minds around that simple fact there’s not the slightest thing which will change.
No reward offered, as he has already collected it himself!
I have never been a fan of clubs, or joining in, but there are always times when the best thing to do is to look it up; and then SIGN UP for a truly deserving cause!
The details are shocking even for those of us who regard our communist “hospitals” as little more than human abattoirs.
Examples included patients being so thirsty that they had to drink water from vases and receptionists left to decide which patients to treat in A&E.
Nurses were not trained properly to use vital equipment, while inexperienced doctors were put in charge of critically ill patients.
Some patients needing pain relief either got it late or not at all, leaving them crying out for help, and there were cases where food and drinks were left out of reach.
What about prosecutions of those NHS butchers who killed hundreds of innocents? Forget about it. In true regime style not a single negligent, corrupt, heartless bastard has even been disciplined for this incredible barbarity. What we’ve learned is that in order to meet targets handed down by the central state, costs were cut, staff levels were cut and hundreds left to die. No doubt many thousands suffered horrendously, This to advance the lucrative careers of state apparatchiks. Nothing can possibly change that incentive while health rationing is collectivised.
Tonight we learn that five more of these inhumane organisations are under investigation. It’s been said in these here parts before, and the killing wards of Staffordshire prove it more necessary than ever: do everything you possibly can to avoid “treatment” in the state system.
Some time ago I wrote about my recovery from a rather large and complex operation which was perfomed on my abdominal area. The operation itself was a complete success, and the heading to my previous post was a copy letter to the staff on the ward where I was treated.
I had very few complaints regarding my time in the hospital, but the one thing which sticks in my mind was the manner in which I was treated by one Staff Nurse. As I wrote at the time:-
My wound was dressed the first time by a Scots staff nurse who was probably extremely competent, but had not the first clue about how to remove an adhesive dressing without ripping it off my stomach; as the scar was over two feet long and was barely commencing healing, you can possibly imagine what I went through, but after I stated in no uncertain terms that I refused to let her near me again, things grew brighter by the minute!
My sharpish response to the possibility that this woman would be let loose around my wound and the dressing thereof was greeted with astonishment by a doctor, who was then told by another nurse that everyone on the ward knew of her brusque, brutish and uncaring attitude towards sick patients, but no-one had ever spoken out before my words condemning her attitude towards patients on the ward. I repeat ‘ no-one had ever spoken out before my words condemning her sttitude towards patients on the ward’
I listened to the loud choruses of condemnation regarding the horrific abortion which was the regime at the Mid-Stafford Hospital, where some 1200 people had died, some in appalling filth and pain, because Management wanted results, and people just don’t count. The one voice which spoke in the truest tone was that of a nurse who stated that no-one ‘blew the whistle’, or attempted to gain redress for patients who had been left to die, becaue they feared being sacked for daring to speak out.
There is one further point I would make about hospitals in general, and the treatment of patients in particular, and that is during my stay at the Freeman Hospital, I was possibly the ONLY person to demand that I be addressed as ‘Mr. Cunningham’; not Mike, nor any other Tom, Dick or Harriet. I was an individual, I did not know any of the hospital staff before I was admitted, so why should they address me by any other term than one of respect and civility?
p.s. Just to note, the NHS Chief of the Stafford Trust now heads the NHS Commissioning Board.
How we loved the tribute to the NHS in the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony.
Why we had kids bouncing on giant beds and nurses and doctors danced with joy at their involvement in the “envy of the world”. Let’s be straight here; the NHS is a totem for the political LEFT and those who dare criticise it are presented as outcasts. Then you read this;
“NHS Alexandra Hospital in Redditch is writing to 38 families after a massive legal action that exposed years of bad practice, ranging from nurses taunting patients to leaving an elderly woman unwashed for 11 weeks.
In one of the worst cases, a man had starvation recorded as the cause of his death after being treated at the hospital for two months.
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, said last night that he was “disgusted and appalled” by what the families had been through, and that the Government was acting to ensure that failings in care were detected more quickly.
Bereaved relatives had told how vulnerable patients were left to starve when trays were placed out of their reach, while others were left in soaking bedsheets.”
Starved to death. Taunted by nurses. The GRIM reality of the NHS. The statist monolith kills around 12,000 patients needlessly per year. It is the single biggest threat to our health. It is a totem that merits intense criticism and what has happened at Redditch is by no means unique. I say shame on the NHS.
Socialised medicine will always lead to death panels. It’s obvious;
”A senior cancer specialist today condemned the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway as a corrupt and scandalous system used to free hospital beds of the old and sick. Professor Mark Glaser said the Pathway – in use across the NHS as a way to ease the suffering of the dying – is employed by Health Service managers to clear bed space and to achieve targets that bring more money to their hospitals. The professor, who treated former Labour Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam during her last illness, said practices in British hospitals are ‘morally bad medicine’ and that he would personally ‘never be treated in a hospital in England’.
When your family relies on the NHS all the time – day after day, night after night – you know how precious it is.
David Cameron, 2006
Reality 2012
