how about a no tolerance regime for coverups? One whiff of opacity and heads roll? Rapid justice now for the Valerie Murphy et als of this world?There needs to be radical weeding out at the current top of organisations which are defensive & adversarial. They are known!!
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That's exactly my thinking. Carrot and stick. Immunity for immediate full disclosure of honest, (non-reckless) errors, provided there is no pattern. But jail time for lies and cover ups. I realise I have cause to hold rather strong views on the subject though!

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so have we all! If not historically then potentially
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So true. Depressing, but true.
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#GWMH#Gosport#GosportWarMemorialHospital I would be very careful that Hunt isn't just attempting a slick political escape by creating the patient/ family equivalent of the toothless National Guardian's Office for whistleblowers. Handy PR & help with suppression in one go... -
Indeed Minh. You'll notice I didn't say good... just interesting.
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Another downstream intervention when the systemic upstream causes of ‘closing ranks’ need to be addressed. And I cannot help thinking how the country’s various organisations so often only have Westminster as their example. Rot, rather than Right,at the Top.
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My experience of dealing with all the various medical regulators and gov departments would support your rot theory. But it's not broken - it's doing exactly what it was designed to do - cover up scandals. And it's been very effective, imho. Only a small minority are exposed.
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when Northwick Park hospital damaged my father beyond repair they did an ‘internal investigation’. Like marking your own homework - but won’t tell us the outcome yet. How many doctors whistleblew to us but only in private, never in front of colleagues? It’s going to come out...
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I hope you get the truth to emerge, but it's a long, hard road to walk. The journey to extract the truth from the NHS is probably capable of making even some of your more challenging Artic adventures seem like a walk in the park, I'm afraid. Twitter can help tho. Best of luck!
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Or - and this is just a suggestion- we could not close ranks?
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It's radical... but it might just work. I'm with you.
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Christ.
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Haha! Kettling, I believe the police call it? :)
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ZHH I have a suggestion far more radical than that, too many disastrous NHS + h/care provider failures, too few HCPs understand the Critical Moral Imperative - Zero Harm, Zero Avoidable Deaths + Harm. Avoidable appears to be a word whose meaning the NHS doesn’t grasp
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When even Never Events are commonplace, I guess that tells you everything you need to know about how the NHS interprets the word 'avoidable', Ken.
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He seems to be making the right moves for patient safety but let's wait and see whether he makes mancunianmedic the organisation President

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Ha! Good point. Guess we'll just have to watch and see. My hopes aren't high tbh.
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@Jeremy_Hunt are you reading this??? DO IT NOW -
Be careful what you ask for. Francis called for a single regulator in his Mid Staffs report for a reason - the current division of powers creates gaps through which complainants fall (are shoved). Adding yet another regulator to an already confusing mix may not be the answer, tbh
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