>>Truly unbelievable! Unqualified NHS staff allowed to check thousands of x-rays, for over a DECADE, with fears that the practice may be widespread prompting an urgent all-hospital search... & it takes a member of the public to tell @CareQualityComm before they notice? What?!?
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>>This surely has to yet again prompt serious questions about the efficacy of CQC hospital inspections. How can a patient safety risk this huge be missed for so long? And even then not be found by CQC, but a member of public instead? >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/01/nhs-x-ray-scandal-patients-wrongly-given-cancer-all-clear/ …
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Coroner warned
@Jeremy_Hunt 3 years ago that national shortage of radiologists posed a threat to life https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Nelson-2014-0397.pdf … https://minhalexander.com/2017/08/24/four-years-of-published-coroners-section-28-reports-in-england-and-wales/ … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/01/nhs-x-ray-scandal-patients-wrongly-given-cancer-all-clear/ …@lauradonnlee@bernardjenkin@Meg_HillierMP@sarahwollaston@AoMRC@RCRadiologists@RichardEvans40pic.twitter.com/iD1rDArwIZ
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@Jeremy_Hunt was warned AGAIN in May 2016 about the risk to life posed by national shortage of radiologists https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pridmore-2016-0491.pdf … There's no#FreedomToSpeakUp if head of the NHS won't Listen Up#FTSU#CQCDeathsReview#KFAnnual2017@H_S_Epic.twitter.com/IYYm6ALVnB
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Interesting. So this was far from new news?CQC should have been actively looking for this then, not waiting for the suffering public to inform them. It'd be like them claiming Christmas came as a surprise!
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Quite. CQC et al's failures to properly track & learn from coroners' warning reports is a serious risk to patient safety. More to come shortly. https://minhalexander.com/2017/08/24/four-years-of-published-coroners-section-28-reports-in-england-and-wales/ … https://minhalexander.com/2016/10/08/care-home-deaths-and-more-broken-cqc-promised/ …pic.twitter.com/ZNIeyNveUJ
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Wow! You've been doing some amazing work while I've been away Minh. Well done and thank you, on behalf of all of us. Especially those who don't yet even appreciate that they're in need of your help.
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Very kind John. It's hard to do nothing when there's so much clearly going wonky around us. Not enough hands for all that's needed!
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Pleasure - well deserved. I can so relate to the 'not enough hands' thought too. I could always see more wrongs than I had time to properly challenge.
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Seems like you've positioned yourselves on the right side of this debate to me - well done. Although I do feel it's also worth drawing attention to these points, when discussing early diagnosis & survival rates. >https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/931462246382886912 …
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Wonder if its the same in Wales? My Mum was told at xmas it was just a chest infection & died of lung cancer in July.
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I honestly don't know. Looking at all this, sounds like it maybe worth checking though. So sorry go hear about your mum. :(
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I suspect that so-called 'all clear' may be worthy of a second look. Think I'd be demanding the radiologist's report immediately Anne - avoid offering them any chance to belatedly 'create' one if it wasn't done.
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At least one other on chemo ward had been sent away with antibiotics & was terminal.
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Yet another story of using untrained staff to ?save money. Scandalous.
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