Colchester Hospital

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-30066641

What on earth is going on here ? This Hospital has barely been out of the news all year, all for the wrong reasons. Now operations have been cancelled and patients have been sent home. Are there any AB'ers that live locally ?

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RATTER

\\\\Clearly this place had big issues that need addressing but not all is bad with our hospitals or our NHS system as some would have you believe.\\\

I agree.....we ALL agree....nobody has suggested that ALL hospitals are inefficient or/and dangerous places.

The main argument has been, the intolerance over the past decades to ANY criticism of the NHS....markedly so on AB.

[Peter Pedant]

mm // seems endemic in hospitals nowadays ..poor show !//

There was a decent system of inspection of hospitals until 2001.
I did one of the last.

The hospital mgrs then were asked by Alan Milburn what one thing was standing in the way of progress ? and they answered ' royal college inspections '

so .... in the 2003 Care and Standards act, it was made unlawful for anyone to inspect a hospital unless they were from PMETB.
PMETB managed two and a half inspections before it went bust.

The half was where the inspection team said to their masters that if they were not to meet ANYONE and it was a paper exercise, they were all going home. They did [go home].

and thereafter the hospitals were uninspected
'light touch regulation' was the game of the day
They filled out forms ( the hospitals that is ! ) saying how wonderful the data they had collected showed they were.


And the people doing the inspections who thought they were doing a quite good job were told they were doing a bad job and should retire. We did. The people who blew the whistle got fired.

Alan Milburn has said in public he has had nothing to do with the mess we currently have.

Yes I have an ax to grind

[Zacs-Master]

So where does the CQC fit in with that PP?

[mikey4444]

The QCQ ...now where have I heard that name before ?

I remember ! ...it was the watchdog that stood by and did nothing about rogue care homes and mental health hospitals, where the patients were being treated so badly that the BBC had to send undercover units in to expose them for what they were.

Not sure if the QCQ is able to judge anybody.

[jourdain2]

Ratter, the food in French hospitals is also lousy - in fact I couldn't even start to eat several meals when I was in - but I had to pay for it and that supported the medical side. I'd have had to eat anyway.

Beginning to get worried about coming home now,