Trefor Roscoe wrote:
> I am annoyed that te BBC news is saying that 'scores' of patients were
> harmed. The report suggests at least 400 died, some estimates say 1200
> harmed.
>
> Since when was the phrase scores used for 20-60 score.
>
> Hundreds or over a thousancd would be better.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Miller
> Sent: 17 March 2009 17:15
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> Subject: whose can is it...
>
> to carry in Staffordshire?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7948293.stm
>
> How appalling that the culture of the NHS has been so undermined and
> so systematically degraded that this disaster has occurred.
>
> Would a criminal investigation be appropriate? If a doc causes death
> by misadventure or negligence then a manslaughter charge would surely
> follow. If a manager's policies and procedures result in harm leading
> to death, which seems to be what has happened here, surely the same
> legal principles should apply?
>
If targets and tick boxes are the only things on which a person is
judged, then an ability to achieve these is the only thing which will be
aimed for. Baby p probably had all boxes ticked correctly, now Stafford
hospital, what next?
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