Various governments have gone a long way to making Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) a form of quasi-religion. We are told by Government and media to worship the fact that in Britain healthcare is free at the point of use and to genuflect towards those who staff it. We are encouraged as Britons to see the NHS as an unalloyed good and are discouraged from calling for healthcare systems that might work better for Britons.
The NHS as an unalloyed good for which there is no alternative necessary is the narrative that government and media put out about the NHS but for the average British subject these ideas often crumble on contact with the NHS and its servivces. Whilst I have nothing but praise for my diabetic nurse who is skilled, personable and humane, I will not overlook the many more cases that I’ve come across where NHS staff are inhumane, nasty or just plain criminal. I’ve had relatives killed or nearly crippled by NHS blunders and piss poor medical conduct and I’m not the only Briton whom this has happened to, if you search you can find hundreds more similar stories.
The NHS is an utter and complete mess and it’s not the sort of mess that can be solved by just chucking more money at it. Contrary to what the socialist NHS types bang on about, the problems that beset the NHS are not down to funding on its own. Partly the NHS’s problems are due to money not being spent effectively or even rationally and the NHS’s own internal culture. We are an advanced nation, we shouldn’t be tolerating what the NHS dishes out to us. We deserve better than a healthcare system where at one point 63% of maternity units were considered as unsafe by the government’s own healthcare inspectorate or where rabid Jew haters occupy senior medical positions or as per a story I saw recently has GP’s that sent a women suffering from a post mastectomy surgical infection to Accident and Emergency. The NHS is somewhat of a lottery where your chances of getting decent treatment by caring staff are mostly a matter of chance or geography or the ideology of the healthcare worker.
Sometimes you can play the ‘NHS standards lottery’ and win big and get decent, effective treatment given by staff who are caring, humane and who are consummate professionals. However you could play this NHS lottery and end up in a hospital like Blackpool that has not only had numerous scandals but has also had a significant level of criminality among its staff.
It’s astonishing to read the piece on criminality at Blackpool hospital by Lancashire Live’s court reporter Rachael Smith. In her piece she lists a good number of those who have potentially endangered patients lives or engaged in predatory conduct at this horror of a hospital. There’s the surgeon who sexually molested young female staff then there was the case of a nurse and a healthcare assistant who drugged patients into insensibility in order to give staff a quieter life. The Blackpool horror hospital has also seen cases of the theft of drugs (sometimes to allieviate class A drug withdrawal symptoms among hospital staff), a doctor who punched a dementia patient in the face, a healthcare worker on the hospital’s stroke unit who was convicted of five counts of sexual assault and another doctor who was banned from practising for 12 months following an allegation of rape, an allegation that the police and the CPS discontinued due to ‘evidential difficulties’. All this is on top of other rape and sexual assault allegations related to this hospital’s stroke unit and ongoing investigations by police into mistreatment of patients and deaths of patients who were being cared for by the stroke unit. The investigations into this mistreatment and the suspicious deaths are still in progress.
Here’s Ms Smith’s full piece at Lancashire Live and it makes for horrific reading.
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/every-staff-member-jailed-blackpools-32488650
It’s clear that Blackpool Victoria Hospital is a mess and has some deep seated problems with how it is managed and staffed. It seems to have been a haven for violent, rapey, criminals or those who are completely derelict when it comes to their duties.
Whilst I would agree that these problems are only being highlighted at one NHS hospital I can’t shake the question of whether the problems suffered by Blackpool Victoria Hospital are being shared by other NHS establishments? I can see nothing that would prevent any other hospital ending up like Blackpool has and that is something that both frightens me and makes me rage with anger. How many other NHS hospitals are being run as badly as this and have as many criminals and monsters on their staff as Blackpool Victoria has? We don’t know but I’d stake a great deal in it not being zero.