Back to blame: the Bawa-Garba case and the patient safety agenda | The BMJ
"GMC risks reviving a culture of blame in healthcare"
Reviving? I must've missed that.
#bawagarba's educational supervisor quoted? And a paediatrician from Bristol? Really..?http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5534 …
This is an odd case on so many levels. Very little about it follows the norms I've come to know. And I agree with you about the arrest. It can be hard enough to get police to register a crime report against a clinician, let alone have them arrested.
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Closest local case was a child cancer specialist consultant who was convicted of pedophilia. Allegedly initiating data came from a Canadian computer crime investigation, it was low-key media reported; but it had a big impact on local hospital requiring chaperones for females etc.
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Myles Bradbury? It was a wake up call for all NHS trusts re chaperones not just Addenbrookes. Also for parents of sick kids.
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Yes. He commited the offences in the same room as chaperones w/ a recording pen, allegedly. He'd allegedly also been breaching rules. Resulting over-caution had huge negative impact on care for awhile; maybe why my pelvic mass missed by A&E, w/ proximal DVT (no one examined me!).
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They shouldn't have not examined you because of chaperone issues. Awful.
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That or the 4 hour target. For whatever reason, they missed a protruding asymmetrical >5 months pregnancy sized mass. Simply by failing to examine me in A&E readmitted for anticoagulation after Bupa diagnosed the proximal DVT w/out provoking injury found. It’s in NICE Guidelines!
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Oh but Kate... to quote my favourite coroner "Guidelines are merely guidelines; doctors' discretion! "
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Guidelines are legally unenforceable and lawyers only care about the law. Francis knew what he saw doing when he recommended an individual statutory duty of candour, even though a professional one already existed in guidelines, imho.
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We had a recent police request for witnesses to a woman with a pram getting splashed by a passing vehicle! But low-key crimes/aggression not worth reporting (eg. today verbally-intimidating driver unaware of velocity; cycling on green light, junction takes longer than for a car).
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Wow. OMG

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Locally I think I read somewhere that policing have decided not to investigate theft below a specific threshold (it was relatively high my recollection). I also saw a recent tweet where the whole of Cambridge Police were in a room meeting, and I think that I counted ? 8 officers!
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There are a lot of unpaid volunteers working for policing, as well as PCSO who have different remit around engagement, mostly. Cameron's Localism Act 2011 lead to more volunteers being expected in policing etc, alongside increased onus on community consultation, my recollection.
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