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Not Again …. – politicalbetting.com
Not Again …. – politicalbetting.com
From 1988 on young children treated for complex heart complaints at the Bristol Royal Infirmary had high death rates, higher than might be expected for such difficult surgery. Between 1986 – 1995 170 children who would likely have survived in other units, died; about 25 – 30 suffered permanent brain damage. An inquiry by Professor Ian Kennedy QC found a unit “simply not up to the task“, a result of poor leadership, a doctors’ “old boys‘” culture, secrecy and a lax approach to safety. What made the scandal so much worse were two things: (1) local GPs knew there was a problem but no-one spoke up; (2) the one whistleblower doctor who repeatedly raised concerns, not just with the hospital but with other authorities, was ignored (eventually moving to Australia to continue his career).
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It was A.O.K. for doctor to attack a doctor who was whistleblowing.
To quote Nigel Lawson
'The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a national religion'
All the more powerful coming from a right wing Conservative. The trouble with anything near sacred is how do you criticise it? Love the NHS all you want if that is your thing but beware any institution put on an unchallenged pedestal.
The NHS is like a national religion and cannot be criticised.
It’s about time we recognised the flaws in the NHS and tried to sort them rather than let them be swept under the carpet. Typical of many institutions in our country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clap_for_Our_Carers
It doesn't mean they get a pass when they disastrously fuck up. As they have demonstrably done here. It is not an institution so fragile that it has to protected "at all costs".
My family KNOWS what war does to you. Don’t need reminding.
Leon said:
My great great g g g g (x 38) grandfather fought and won the Siege of Chartres in 911, after which he converted to fierce Catholicism, seized many lands west of the Seine, and married a five year old girl. That’s what war does to you.
DavidL
And your excuse?
(sorry, couldn't resist)
So your point does not really hold, when criticism is due, it can be delivered without generating loads of outrage.
In that size of organisation, you will find good and bad systems as well as people.
It's tough and when the current blame culture is dominant it is impossible. We absolutely need to change this. My learned friends at the bar wouldn't thank me for this but one obvious help would be no fault compensation when something has gone wrong in the NHS. If you are not going to be named and shamed and blamed in a court case it is a lot easier to be candid.
Better and faster statistical analysis, such as we had after the fact in the cases @Cyclefree describes would also help but only if those statistics are not contaminated or distorted by covering up.
It ties in with the Woke debate. People still try to deny that Woke exists, or, if it does, that it matters. Well here is proof that it exists and that yes it really matters
Part of Wokeness is the elevation of extreme identity politics to a (deliberately?) destructive level - way beyond common sense. Critical Race Theory is one example: all white people are inherently racist and can never atone, etc
Another is the trans debate and “intersectionality” - the *value* of your identity depends on how oppressed you are. A trans person is apparently more oppressed than almost anyone therefore they must be protected more than others, lest you commit the awful crime of transphobia
Hence you get the grotesque situation where a woman’s legitimate rape complaint is flatly denied, as to admit it would be “transphobic”: denying the self-identified gender of the rapist by calling her “a man”
I agree that it hospital's response that is the issue by conflating 'identifying as a woman' with 'not having a penis.'
By I am not even sure they have the strict letter of the law to rely on. The whole response is baffling to me.
It was only a matter of time I guess.
https://amp.ft.com/content/43102ee8-bee0-4803-bc51-4a313f04d550
Saying that this self identifying woman is, in fact, a man with a penis would be transphobia. You’re denying her lived experience. That might get you sacked
So when the police come knocking and say Was there a rape on this ward, you have to say No as only men can commit rape and there were indeed no men on the ward. Ergo rape cannot have occurred
Inevitably in an organisation of that size some things will go wrong. Although hopefully lessons will be learned from the Inquiries
Doesn’t look much like that to me.
This sort of comment makes me so angry. Totally crass from someone who just campaigned, but didn't have to fire a gun. Another armchair general and an insult to the Ukrainians to put it in the same category.
Too much of the Old Boys and Old Girls networks.
The Woke push for gender self recognition has upended all this
Interestingly, I have a close trans friend who did the two years, had the surgery, and has lived contentedly as a woman ever since. She’s appalled at the extremism of militant trans activists and thinks gender self ID is dangerous nonsense
First instinct is hats off to Cornwall. Second is, knowing how hard it is for the Cornish to buy or rent accommodation because of all the second homes and AirBnBs, that that is what it really reflects - Cornwall has more 2nd homes than any other Council ...
Lukashenko has apparently told an interviewer:
"Putin is more alive than anyone else", "will survive us all", "in top shape", "never been more in his right mind", "will only catch a cold at our funerals"..
https://twitter.com/BenQuinn75/status/1505160554608009216?s=20&t=M28TyD-odS8S7blvAKJvZQ
https://www.google.com/search?q=https://amp.ft.com/content/43102ee8-bee0-4803-bc51-4a313f04d550
“It cannot be understated that Kate Grimes seems like a genuinely okay person. Her opening statement in the piece are that of someone who has stood by the wider queer community for decades. Though sadly, that person quickly disappears behind the fog of transphobic conspiracy theory, even going so far as to include claims that the NHS “has been well and truly captured by what some now describe as an extremist trans lobby group.””
https://www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulation/kate-grimes-was-wrong-to-claim-the-nhs-should-not-work-with-stonewall/7030296.article
Stonewall are deeply sinister. If they are running the NHS’s “LGBTQIK++ Diversity Policy” that explains all
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/05/stonewall-trans-debate-toxic-gender-identity
The dark side of using AI to design drugs
Edit: Nor does that link work. Go on give us a clue, just post the headline, we can get it via google from there.
He is clearly out of ideas. People don’t care about Brexit anymore.
Not sure why the scientists were surprised. You set AI on the task of looking for biologically active chemicals and then are appalled to find that the vast majority of biologically active chemicals are harmful??? That is just a basic fact of life.
The dark side of using AI to design drugs
Scientists were horrified when an experiment produced thousands of new chemical killers in a few hours”
‘Working with Stonewall is no longer compatible with NHS values’
https://www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/working-with-stonewall-is-no-longer-compatible-with-nhs-values/7030259.article
Easy to see how this comes about. Thanks @cyclefree for a great header as always.
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2022/03/bahrain-pre-qualifying-2022.html
Oh, to be in England.....
While 59% of Leavers are still voting Conservative to just 19% voting Labour
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/10/voting-intention-con-33-lab-39-8-9-mar
I have no doubt that trans people are exactly the same. The vast majority of them will, like heterosexuals or gays, be completely harmless and a threat to no one. But a loophole has been created and exploited by what are in fact heterosexual predators to get into what are meant to be protected spaces.
How do we deal with this loophole? One way, as I mentioned on the previous thread, is to gender neutralise the crime as we have in Scotland. The other is to set the goalposts for these protected areas slightly higher. So, in the general community you can self identify as whatever you like but if you want to get into those protected spaces you need to be sufficiently far along in the treatment that you are no longer biologically functional as a male.
Quite why this practical issue has caused so much hysteria simply baffles me.
No, I thought not. You reckon wrong. As usual.
Really your stupid obsession with "woke" diminishes you. You might want to think about seeking help.
https://rentry.co/f96nz
This section near the end was great:
The Western world has so taken over the image of such a Ukraine that no serious politician can speak out with an attempt to put pressure on Ukraine anymore (this was not the case until recently). And even in attempts of unspoken negotiations with Zelensky they will be afraid to press: Zelensky's public statement about such a call to surrender will undercut any Western politician's rating. As a result, many years of quite successful work with the Russia-loyal political stratum of Western countries is ruined by an asymmetrical blow. Add to this the banning of broadcasting from a purely Russian point of view - that's it, there is nothing to answer for now.
Apparently, Ukraine has received only a fraction of the promised Strela anti-aircraft missiles . WELT AM SONNTAG learned this from Ukrainian government circles. Only 500 pieces were delivered to Ukraine.
However, the federal government had pledged 2,700 such missiles at the beginning of March. The handover only took place in Poland on Thursday evening. According to Ukrainian government circles, no further Strela deliveries are planned.
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article237631477/Berlin-liefert-nur-Bruchteil-der-versprochenen-Strela-Raketen-an-Ukraine.html
“The HSJ, which describes itself as the “leading resource for healthcare leaders, published an opinion piece written by former NHS trust chief executive Kate Grimes which claimed that the health service “has been well and truly captured by what some now describe as an extremist trans lobby group”.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/senior-nhs-leaders-demand-apology-162019669.html
You’re right in one way tho. Why am I wasting a beautiful spring day arguing with literal idiots like you. That’s idiotic of me. Enough
Plainly this is false, but it is much harder, and duller, to implement policies that effect actual change for the better.
And at this particular moment when we are maxed out on tax, spend, rigged interest rates, inflation, debt, borrowing and deficit, and increased demand for every state expenditure (defence is this week's good cause) the cupboard is bare.
We are spending (I think) £210bn pa on health care, which is a fair bit. No-one who wants more spent will tell you how much more will put it right. That's because it won't, and because their demands are without end.
Thus I’m a (proud) Rejoiner and voted Labour last time. As indeed I have most of my adult life.
He never stopped to think how keen the Ukrainians are to join the EU.
Given the number of people it treats then even a small percentage of failures means many, many are adversely affected.
Likely most people in it know all this but probably feel overwhelmed at the thought of trying to change anything.
Who also wanted us to clap for bankers, which puts it into some sort of context. Or does it? "Speaking in the West Midlands – where he promised a bonfire of planning rules, so spark more housebuilding – Mr Johnson also hinted the rich were safe from future tax increases." (7/4/2020)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-nhs-clap-bankers-coronavirus-a9593266.html
Most people are sensible about politics and therefore WAAAAAAY less well-informed than us geeks. And, as we see, many of the geeks on here don't understand Woke, or don't want to understand it, some refuse to believe it exists (which is actually understandable, in a way, because elements of it are so truly bizarre. It's a bit like the Victorians who refused to believe the first descriptions of a duck billed platypus)
Therefore if you want to raise awareness and get people as angry as they should be, you have to be pretty damn brutal and heavy handed. The Republicans have shown that waging the Culture Wars can win elections, if you go in hard enough. They won Virginia thereby
Someone should ask Starmer if a rape took place in that hospital. Because of his Wokeness, he won't be able to answer coherently. A well timed bomb like that could, by itself, win the GE for the Tories, by turning millions of despairing women away from Labour