They don’t carry much weight. I know of one Consultant who had a warning put onto his GMC registration because his flight back from USA was cancelled and he couldn’t get back to be on call. But they are toothless Guidelines...
That's an interesting list - esp considering there appears to be complete non-compliance with those guidelines in this case. Have they any weight? Is it like GMC guidelines which one is obliged to account for?
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Can't say I'm surprised. All professional guidelines are legally unenforceable, so if the professionally body doesn't enforce them, (as is sadly common), then nobody else can.
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No-one enforces guidelines They're guidelines, not laws nor regulationspic.twitter.com/gUqGBfyNTp
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As well you know GMC can be harsh on those of our tinted brethren who do not follow the guidelines ' Guide o me my GMC I am weak but thou art mighty."
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I'm of the view that whistleblowers and BME staff are disproportionately targeted in order to contain scandals & make the overall headline sanction figures look defensible. But there's a dark side to that coin. Clinicians from other groups are unreasonably protected by GMC.
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That should've said *another* dark side...
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Clinician's being protected by GMC is not a concept with which I am familiar
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Yes.. I'm mindful of your own experience doc. I wish I weren't familiar with the concept, but I could share the details of our case and you'd perhaps better appreciate my point. Or the experiences of so many others I'd honestly struggle to estimate. Universally despised, the GMC.
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John - that’s one of the reasons why so many medics are concerned about this case. Clear lack of usual expected supervision. Amongst many many other failings that day.
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Taryn - not as concerned as patients are. This is just 1 example of failure to follow a medical guideline. Among many, many other such failures that happen every day all over the UK without a peep from clinicians. And let's remember; the court accounted for mitigation here.pic.twitter.com/NOmDJ4Umyk
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NHS doctors are patients of the NHS too and so are our nearest and dearest. I don’t believe in this “them and us” division. It isn’t the case that there is not a peep from clinicians about individual or system failures. It was the basis for much of the Jr Dr contract debate.
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I know that each NHS professional goes to work each day to do the absolute best they can for patients. What can we do when the system breaks and patients are harmed? That’s the crux of the matter, people are fed up hearing “lessons will be learned “. 1/2
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The lessons always seem to be Be more vigilant Work harder Fill in more forms Read the policy Do mandatory training And not changes in Structure & Process to make it easier to do the correct and harder to do the incorrect things
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A dangerous stretch of road needs to be redesigned and rebuilt to become safer but The NHS answer would be to add more warning signs, demand higher speeds, better fuel consumption and fewer accidents but be surprised when it got more accidents and harm.
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When the M25 becomes overcrowded dangerous and queues build up Flow and Safety are improved by making traffic slow down. When hospitals are overcrowded dangerous full of queues and understaffed we are ordered to speed up. Result?
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Sure we've done this analogy before Gordon? If someone weaves through traffic at 200mph (reckless) & causes an inevitable fatal pile up, they're culpable despite any 'system' flaws around them. Ever wonder what our analogies sound like? Harsh but true ;-)https://twitter.com/C7RKY/status/1023952713539891202 …
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@hilaryklonn produces long lists of assertions as though they live alongside#bawagarba I asked them to back up one claim: that Dr BG attended an arrest that day, that wasn't Jack No evidence. They pointed me to a web site of documents Good in participate in discussion, butThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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