There has been a tendency to blame the individual, says Prof Williams. Quick question to NHS complainants - did an individual get blamed when you complained? Or did they blame nobody (except perhaps you) and cover it all up? I don't recognise this so-called 'blame culture'.
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It took well over a year, lots of persistence & threats to go to the newspapers/Ombudsman
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I'm up to over 7 years now (and I'm a relative newbie). I did go to the ombudsman. And the GMC, NHSE, CQC, DoH, Healthwatch, Patients Association, police etc and finally, even the newspapers. It's made no difference. Like I said... you've done well.
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That’s disgraceful
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There are more shocking tales than ours around tbh. It's an alarmingly slimy scene when you kick over this particular rock.
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Is it hopeless? Is our best route just to suck up to the ghastly clinicians who behave like this to try and protect ourselves from worse care?
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Only you can really decide how best to deal with it in your own situation, but the one thing I can tel you from my personal experience is that learning the rules/laws surrounding consent can have a positive effect sometimes.https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/1052607713862135808?s=21 …
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What are the core things about consent you think ppl shld know?
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That's a really good question actually. Worthy of more than just a few tweets in reply, but I don't know of any 1 place I can refer you which would cover all that grabbed my attention either. Was planning on starting a blog soon, so perhaps I should cover that? As bullet points:
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