“Typical BNP bull.
They are clearly counting medical secretaries etc etc as bureaucrats.

People go on and on about lack of front line staff and value for money - but tell me this, does it make sense for a consultant on £75,000+ to spend his days typing letters rather than seeing patients?

And also, would you like budgets of 10 million pounds plus being managed by people with no qualifications or experience in finance? Believe it or not, the infrastructure is there for a reason (just like in private companies.)

Simple common sense, so it really annoys me when the BNP, the Daily Mail etc etc whip everyone up into a frenzy - it is ridiculous.”

“From the BNP website- "Today, the NHS is a laughing stock. NHS Trusts are sacking staff, closing wards, cancelling operations and refusing patients vital life-saving drugs. Meanwhile, ¿health tourists¿ are costing the NHS £2 billion a year,
British doctors and nurses are unable to find work in the NHS because we are importing medical staff (often with questionable qualifications) from the Third World where they are desperately needed.
Sixty percent of NHS staff are bureaucrats, and there are now more managers in the NHS than beds ¿ with many earning more than £100,000 per year"”

“Quote- "Derriford Hospital failed to comply with NHS safety alerts"

What kind of antisocial clowns are running Derriford? They couldn't run a whelk stall let alone a hospital”

“I can¿t believe the people complaining about this. I mean ¿ durr! If there is going to be an accident ¿ what safer place to have one than in a hospital! How can people be so blind as to not see this? Health AND Safety? ¿You¿re having a laugh!”

“We have witnessed first hand the way shocking failures in care (and the shockingly poor attempts to learn from them that follow) occur at Derriford. I'm sure it's the same for many people and at many hospitals. I expect the excuses are the same too - "we need to save £15m on our budget first", "the National Health Service Litigation Authority guidelines tell us to do this when we screw up", "what letter was that then?" etc., etc.

What's difficult to understand from the outside is how the good, committed staff, who know this is happening and know why it is happening, let it happen anyway. Their duty is to their patients, they are first in the firing line when things go wrong and they must hate seeing their patients suffer unnecessarily, if only for the added stress. But maybe they're really the only ones who can do anything about it. At Birmingham Children¿s Hospital in November 2008, for example, just a few staff had enough collective power to call the management to task before things went all Mid-Staffordshire. Within a week of their letter to the Health Care Commission, the Prime Minister was involved in calling for an inquiry.

In the mean time, I suppose we'll just have to wait for someone to bring charges under the Corporate Manslaughter Act (as happened at Southampton not so long ago).”

“NHS Hospitals, including Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, have put patients¿ lives at risk by failing to comply with safety alerts designed to prevent unnecessary deaths from errors involving surgery, equipment and drugs.

The failure of NHS hospitals to implement these alerts is puts patients' lives and health of patients at risk. Whilst much of the care given in hospitals in the UK is good, the evidence collected already suggests that 1 in 10 people in hospitals are suffering ¿adverse incidents¿. Yet there is research suggesting that only 1 in 1000 are reported. Too many people are suffering unnecessary injuries from avoidable mistakes. Many of them do not even know their poor outcome is caused by errors because doctors have no legal duty to tell them. In the last few months my specialist clinical negligence colleagues at Russell Jones & Walker and I have recovered over £6 million for the victims of serious accidents including brain injuries, strokes, amputations and the delayed diagnosis of cancer as well as for numerous other failings in care. Many had to fight to overcome denials that hospital mistakes had caused harm.

It is a sobering amount when you consider the efforts by organisations like AvMA and NPSA which continue to be face an uphill task if their warnings are to be ignored.”

“It is no surprise the State sponsored privately run deathcamp at Derriford Hospital ignores safety alerts, rather negates its true intent.
Derriford is a privately run corporation. In business to make profit.
Many of the safety alerts listed are witnessed daily by inmates and visitors. Corridors and public areas are filthy with evidence of ingrained filth. Inmate showers, including intensive care, spawn multiple varieties of damp algae spores.
Professional elitism festers throughout. Nursing staff now need medical degrees to administer care! This is a scam promoted to claim more government monies. In fact nurses spend their days with bureaucracy and subservience to doctor administration. Private patients are treated to thespian stage coordinated bedside consultations of consultants, junior doctor out runners and nurses in procession. NHS patients occupy lowest form of legally required medical care.
There are many fine people working at Derriford though they are so engrossed in their own little compartment they are blind to the whole model presented to the public. It's a private corporation, sole purpose, profiteering from pharmaceutical sales and turnover. (and Our taxes).”