Manatee, I agree it's an excellent article in PE - well worth reading in full. Some of the details of what went on (as revealed in the Francis Report) are very, very disturbing to say the least. There was also an excellent (IMHO) editorial in the Telegraph last week
www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9900213/The-NHS-closes-ranks.html#dsq-comments
The last sentence is " Is no one to be held accountable for what happened? " and this is what I find is the most difficult thing to understand. 1200 "unnecessary deaths" and the NHS and Police don't leap into action?
OK, much of it happened a few years ago but it seems possible to investigate and bring to court various aspects of inappropriate behaviour by DJs that happened 40 years ago or pillory some fat old Lib Dem Peer who put his hand on a girls leg 10 years ago. (I''m not trying to belittle these events by the way, but compared to 1200 unnecessary deaths?) How come they can't investigate who was responsible for allowing old people to die after lying uncared for, covered in their own faeces, for days? Who was on duty? Who was the manager in charge? Did the hospital administrator ever have a walk round the wards?
And then they say that the bloke in overall charge is now "fundamental" to the reorganisation of the NHS because he knows what's wrong with it! No he doesn't - he hadn't a clue what was happening at Stafford; why would he have a clue now?
How can all responsible get away with 1200 unnecessary deaths? Imagine if an airport authority was so poorly run that a series of crashes over a few years resulted in 1200 unnecessary deaths........
Sorry for rant, I just find the whole thing incredible
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