Valid point in isolation, but when the subject is potentially dangerous doctors, complainants are unlikely to be persuaded they should be allowed to continue just because of manpower shortages & 'waste of training' arguments, frankly. Both issues need addressing separately, imho.
I agree we should learn all we can from all sources. But this crash would never have happened - the pilots wouldn't have remained silent or accepted inaction so the system would've been fixed. Self preservation is best served by speaking up in aviation, but silence in healthcare.
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Raised with senior staff, management, staffing reported as clinical incidents... for years
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Thank you for doing so. But the inaction remained? Who holds them to account for that? Do I recall reading the police were also starting to look at the trust?
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And there is the small matter Gosport
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Indeed. Still so much to be answered there. And a lack of convictions would be inconceivable - even if they are nearly 20yrs too late. Makes Shipman look small scale...https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/1023009341266452480?s=21 …
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You can raise all the hell you like but in healthcare if the 'pilot' ie doctor refused to 'fly' and asked for the unit to be closed because of unsafe staffing conditions then that would get them in a world of trouble.
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I have shut a casualty once and a hospital no beds because I had 20 people being looked after in the corridor and we were not allowed to shut but we did.
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Got me in shit
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I LOVE that you did that. I know there'll be plenty who will tell me why I'm as wrong to support you as you were to do it, but that's exactly the kind of thing that draws attention. I know there's no such thing as
#safestaffing levels since they ducked it, but did things improve? -
O ye we opened a closed ward
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Cost a fortune
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Knowing as I do just how much money they're prepared to spend defending against complaints of negligent harm - which I suspect your decision may have helped prevent - then you likely saved the trust a fortune, relatively speaking. 1 serious case avoided would probably cover it...
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In aviation stopped at source...
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Exactly.
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