Thank you. I'm not perfect & always learning. I was involved in a serious incident review some years ago & was criticised. What I did learn was that honesty is always best & I'm so glad all involved were
I wish I could do more.
I'm blacklisted by parts of the #nhs unfortunately.
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Badge of honour, as far as I'm concerned. Significantly higher prevalence of honest clinicians on the blacklist than anywhere else, ime.
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I believe the vast majority of clinicians & managers are honest & well intentioned. Problem is the system & toxic hierarchies mean they can act ( inadvertently) as enablers for those who put reputation & power over accountability. Took me 30+ years to work this out.
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Hmm. Had to pause & think about this one, because although I'd like to believe it, it's not been reflected by reality so far. I'm afraid I flat out don't believe it re managers and I'm becoming increasingly unwilling to accept complicit silence as well intentioned or inadvertent.
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I understand your point of view. It's hard to offer any examples to support my view on managers, especially as many of the good mangers I had in mind have now left. I agree that complicit silence is never acceptable.
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To name but 2 of our longest serving members... of a club that nobody wanted to join.
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Yes, and there are many many more in this group of people and families failed so badly.
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I was only talking to someone about this recently. We need a way to measure our numbers. A place where we can all tell our stories & have them be there for others to learn from. I don't think the scale of this will be appreciated until we ourselves make it clear. Nobody else will
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The challenge to do this IMO is always money & time. A fortune of public money is spent on denying the truth ('experts', reviews, 'listening events', consultants etc.) & ridiculous schemes like
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Totally agree. And public money is also spent on a cursory nod to patient involvement, which is supposed to come in the form of organisations like the Patient's Association & Healthwatch. Both of whom refused to help with my concerns. False advertising, imho. Part of the problem.
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I've no confidence is either the Patients Association or national Healthwatch. Local Healthwatch's can be helpful but IMO they're 'under the thumb'. In the NHS bodies such as NHS Horizons also act as barriers to transparency & prop up the toxic culture.
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Such orgs represent the 'controlled voice of opposition' for me these days. Best way of ensuring you win an argument is to control both sides of the debate. Something both the NHS and gov more generally clearly worked out a long time before I clicked.
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