Should Senior Management Of The Care Quality Commission Face Criminal Charges.

[barney15c]

This quango by any other name deliberately covered up its own incompitence with regards to Baby deaths at the Furness Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria. Read behind all the eloquent language and what you get is what amounts to criminal behaviour. Conveniently many of the management of the CQC have moved on but because of the Data protection act they can't be named, whether they hold posts in other government departments or if they recieved payoffs, so 'legally' we can't be sure if any action (if at all) was taken against them. Should it be a prequesite that any senior management be legaly accountable for any 'failings' under their watch. The same is being proposed for reckless bankers after all. I'm geting seriously p**sed off hearing the lessons wil be learnt spiel that happens every time another story of mismanagement and incompitence is discovered. It makes you wonder what other dirty litle secrets are waitng to be unearthed.

[Peter Pedant]

Kay Sheldon is on Northern TV 1830 - North West Tonight
'I have been subjected to the most appalling treatment'

Will those responsible be punished ? asks the tv team

KS is the woman they tried to remove on the grounds of insanity
Andrew Lansley refused

James Titcombe Baby T's father complains that the alleged decision to delete the report before the Whistleblower asked questions may constitute a broader and on going cover up.

The 'deleted report' is the subject of an FOI inquiry and so should be public soon

[Peter Pedant]

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Prior now (the new) head of the CQC:
We had a dysfunctional board
and a dysfunctional leadership team

We had to anonymise the report because otherwise we would be infringing the Data Protection Act.

[emmie]

gosh..

[emmie]

watched channel 4, Jon Snow interview, the man on the other side of the table, didn't get the name as just patched into it momentarily, looked shell shocked.

[LazyGun]

Cannot find a reference now -but the Data Protection Registrar has gone on record as saying that there is no Data Protection defence to prevent the CQC naming those involved in the provision of the report.

Based upon what I have read, it is one of the more egregious examples of a cover-up, and this in the official regulator.They most definitely should name and shame, and those directly involved should face legal action.

[emmie]

so they should, appalling.

[FredPuli43]

The question remains : What criminal offence have they committed ?

[LazyGun]

Its a good question too, for which I do not have the expertise to answer.

My understanding of the whole situation is necessarily imperfect as a member of the general public - but the story seems to be that an internal report highly critical of the CQCs own response to the issues at Furness General was suppressed/destroyed on the word of a senior manager within the CQC for fear of the bad publicity.

Suppression/ destruction of a report on the legally mandated service regulator with the subsequent false assurances of the service at Furness sounds something like reckless endangerment at the least. Were it demonstrated that the service at Furness was allowed to operate essentially unchanged as a consequence of the clean bill of health given by the CQC, then maybe something like corporate manslaughter could be levelled against the CQC for any deaths subsequent to when that report might have been published.....

I think the public as an absolute minimum should know the names of those directly involved in suppression of a report critical of a public regulator, and their fate - are they still working in the Health Service? If so, in what capacity? Have they been disciplined? Has anyone lost their job as a consequence?

[barney15c]

lazyygun, yes if it is in the national interest, using the data protection act to hide behind is no guarantee that they cant be named and shamed....

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/408645/Police-urged-to-probe-cover-up

[FredPuli43]

Think you are on the right track there, LG. If someone deliberately gives false information, or hides information, and thereby an avoidable accident or death occurs, that is certainly actionable. In an extreme case, it could be manslaughter on their part, whatever the carefully written bill on corporate manslaughter was to say if enacted.

[Peter Pedant]

well this DT internet site,enumberates the list of shame:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10129539/CQC-report-watchdog-heads-who-presided-over-scandal-profiles.html


The original report see above has Mr A - J
and you have to work out which is which

[LazyGun]

@barney - Thanks for the link - I knew I had read it somewhere :)

[LazyGun]

@ Peter - It really does read like a hall of shame doesn't it? And the money and pension payments they get as a pay-off.

And as for that one who tried to oust a board member by calling her mad and commissioning a pyschiatric report on her....

Its this unwillingness to allow people to be held publically to account that is particularly distasteful, together with the outrageous salary and pension settlements and sideways moves for some of these individuals. They must think they are untouchable...

[emmie]

fuller reports in todays paper, they have named and shamed at least two individuals concerned, as the boss of the CQC he was the one i saw on the channel 4 news last evening, stuttered and fudged his way through the interview, as you say many of the staff have conveniently left, not sacked, but left, to go where, another trust perhaps. They deleted evidence of the botched CQC inspection, criminal charges should follow for all involved.

[cassa333]

Well apart from the todo about cover ups and incompitance what is/will happen about the reports they have done on other care facilities? There have been a few high profile instances of institutions closeing but what of the others that have been given a clean bill of health?

Leed General Infermary children's cardiac department has very rescently be given a 'clean bill of health'. Was this correct? Did the cqc only take the leeds trust data and not look further?

Will their findings on other institutions have to be investigated again?

[anneasquith]

the government, a disgrace...... health minister. resign now.CQC. a bunch of criminals. NHS, a joke. to all involved from top to bottom of the ladder, HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME. and apologise to all the families involved, and no amount of money will ease their grief.

[Peter Pedant]

I have started a new thread on the Info commissioner side of things as he clearly links it to the wider phrase: "oo I can't mention X Y or Z cos of Data Protection..."
which all of us hear at Banks, Elec Board and so on every day of our lives.

I was also struck by the burbling of Mr Prior soon to be Sir, head of the CQC and the straightforward manner of the Info Commissioner

[mikey4444]

Yes to your answer barney. We went through all this with the Mid Staffs nonsense but we seem to have learned nothing whatsoever. Arrest them for fraud, which is what has gone on here, lets be clear.

[barney15c]

Makes you wonder what the next related scandal is going to be...convinced this is the tip of a very large iceberg, corruption and incompitence to the very core. Are any of these individuals still working for other trusts. On another note can fully see why the whistleblower was initmidated by Dame Jo Williams and Cynthia Bower, a right couple of harpies.

[barney15c]

....also i reckon this could go to ministerial level, apparently whistleblower took this to the highest levels (the head of the dept of health and the health minister at the time) and was ignored or sidelined, so they have something to answer for too.