Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The principle behind the NHS – free care at the point of delivery – is a fine one. Day after day, staff work hard under stressful conditions to provide an often excellent service. But there are exceptions and costly mistakes are made. Admiration for the values of the NHS should not blind us to its faults or prevent us from speaking about them.
Earlier this month, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that two hospitals were compelled to stop carrying out keyhole surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer following the deaths of five patients in 2012. The Royal College of Surgeons ordered that all such operations from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should be performed at St Thomas’s Hospital instead, until improvements were evident. Three surgeons were barred from the procedure, though all three were permitted to continue general surgery.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10836873/NHS-managers-are-not-doing-their-job-properly.html
Earlier this month, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that two hospitals were compelled to stop carrying out keyhole surgery for upper gastrointestinal cancer following the deaths of five patients in 2012. The Royal College of Surgeons ordered that all such operations from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should be performed at St Thomas’s Hospital instead, until improvements were evident. Three surgeons were barred from the procedure, though all three were permitted to continue general surgery.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10836873/NHS-managers-are-not-doing-their-job-properly.html