Shock headline in yesterday’s UK Times – re NHS

In The Times on the front page yesterday (09 March 2016) appeared the headline “Blundering doctors get protection from blame”.  It went on to explain in the article that Doctors who make mistakes, causing ill health, fatalities, depression and confusion are likely to get protection from people who launch a complaint and investigation and are not likely to lose their highly paid jobs. This is something of a disgrace for more than one reason.  The first disgrace is that recently the UK press has wholeheartedly investigated sexual promiscuity and indiscretion practiced by Disc Jockeys, TV Presenters, Pop Stars and other personnel some of whom are now in prison or who have lost their jobs. It also covers members of the Church.  That is fair if they did wrong.  It has also investigated corruption in Civil Servants who have fraudulently taken funds for their expenses and other items – and they too sometimes have ended up in prison.

The second reason why this is a disgrace is that if the press did the above with illegal conduct then why do they then try and suddenly take a sector of society which is relied upon to get things right and uphold unlawful and incompetent conduct implying that the victims of this will be abused if they go through complaints channels.  We do not wish to have a society that upholds bad practice in medicine.

There are cases where the NHS has been used using members of a family who have organised unlawful and false imprisonment causing homelessness and extreme anxiety for someone in the family who is of a right mind and highly qualified just because they do not get on with them.  This has indeed caused Doctors to be complained about as well as social workers and other staff who will not use a team to attempt to discover a way to investigate bullying NHS personnel who may in fact be after a relative’s portion of a will and may have planned the deceit over a period of many years to either destroy a person’s  good reputation or ruin their health through bad medication so that for example a brother who is a Doctor can bully his sister because the brother’s wife is jealous of her writing capabilities and they are also after a will.

I think our readers should approach The Times with letters of complaint unless the NHS has made threats to the profession of journalism that they will try and ruin journalist’s livelihoods using Drs and psychiatrists if the press exposes bad medical practices in which case some doctors should be employed to work within the press to prevent bad medical personnel trying to do this and get them sacked or disciplined.  It is wrong to stop the press telling the truth on subjects including bad side effects of medications and operations, bad or drug addicted GP’s etc., bullying social workers in so called mental health. This outrage MUST be objected to.  Write to The Times if you agree, and also raise it with your local paper.

Penny Nair Price

Please note.  I am going to offer a paper on the subject and write up my views.  At present many practices have supervision to attempt to stop depressed GP’s making mistakes due to their own depression or drug dependencies.  Granted they have a difficult job but the public can not expect to be silenced if these tax payers (the public)  have bad experiences.