The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.F. S.

Clearing out the family home is hard. What to keep, what to let go of.

My dad was a voracious reader and I’d read his books. Packing them up, it hit me how many were about state corruption. The irony.

This was the defining one for me. Integrity is a keeper.

Det. Frank Serpico NYPD Ret.

We can be certain that some HSC staff and organisations as a whole strategically abused the pandemic as an excuse to slack off on services and hide behind poor performance. We just can’t know to what extent.

Some organisations are still at it. This is today 👇
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JM Reid Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Health The meek, lowly and unrepresented will fall foul of pretence. No one else. Please God for strong advocating nurses and social teams #YouAreNotAlone #ReadyWhenYouAreSafe

New report from RCPCH on Waiting Lists for children in NI paints a damning picture.

Number of children waiting more than 12 months:

Scotland 0
Wales 0
NI 6,326

Haven’t we have tolerated this appalling performance for far too long?

Deirdre Heenan No of NI Health Trusts? 5 Trusts
Equivalent 🇬🇧 population size = 1 Trust.

Average admin/senior management cost per Trust = £2-3M.

Times * 5 = £15M.

£15M would reduce quite a lot of waiting lists.

Let’s have some efficiency in HSCNI instead of bloated sacred cows.

These self-praise events are rampant across HSCNI.

Inappropriate & unnecessary at any time but esp now when HSC leaders are giving the public & Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Health one sob story after another about hospitals in crisis

How many extra ED staff or hip ops could be covered?

#teampatient

This is now an almost day and daily post.

Who would want to sit hours on end in such dreadful environments?

How many are sent unnecessarily to EDs by GPs?

Addressing the many internal inefficiencies would help much more than this type of post.

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Another tweet from BelTrust gaslighting the public for its own failures.

This should be a tweet to staff to get discharges sorted and an apology to pts & families for the hours they’re held back in hosp, waiting on final checks, forms, meds, this, that & the other.

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Good to hear RCN’s Rita Devlin on Talkback today calling the term ‘bed blockers’ disrespectful.

In this video, the words bed blocker and elderly aren’t used but we know who they mean. Sad music for added effect.

Even without the words, the disrespectful attitude is there.

Marie-Louise Connolly Gareth Roberts  Usual…..all deliberation & no action. It’s (almost) as frustrating on the clinical / health professional side of the equation.

2 cases reported in two days of ‘locker room’ patient experiences in Altnagelvin.

Again, DoH says it will carry out a ‘review’. It really should provide definitions of the words they use. How does a ‘review’ differ from an ‘investigation’?

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Altnagelvin Hospital.

The DoH says it will carry out a “review”.

The word ‘review’ is interesting.
Last year, the dept amended the regional HSCNI regional complaints procedure, changing the word ‘investigation’ to ‘review’.

Yes. If a member of the public, or even a healthcare whistleblower, were to contact police about what they believe to be illegal actions by staff/org, they would be referred back to the same orgs, for them to ‘investigate’. It enables and facilitates harm and death.

JM Reid I find it a difficult watch too given the repetitiveness of the message yet no real time change or improvement behind it. If the focus, “no excuses” attitude & comparable resources of digital system roll out was put towards current health crisis it could be resolved expeditiously

Always remember that the delay discharge process will likely never be the fault of a patient or the relatives of a patient.

The atmospheric music in this video is purposefully placed.

Belfast Trust Can you please let the Southern Trust see this? My mum has been in Craigavon Hospital for 5 days in pain waiting on a ultrasound scan. She is in a bed someone else could have. Such a waste of resource and tax payers money.

Another gaslighting exercise, blaming older pts & families for:

- poor care at home planning & services
- untrustworthy private care homes due to abuse & neglect of elderly
- incompetencies in hosp care.

And why is hosp care a detriment to older pts? Neglect is a factor.

In 2015 Robert Francis in his FTSU report came to essentially the same conclusion as Alan Bates in #PostOfficeInquiry The NHS was run by Thugs in Suits. He handed that conclusion to Jeremy Hunt Department of Health and Social Care who left staff and patients to their fate. CQCProf National Guardian's Office 💙

Next door on 4B was a horror show for my father and us.

BelTrust has a thing called ‘Compliments & Complaints’ but post only compliments.

Honesty, transparency and balance would be to post some complaints & evidence of those lessons learned they like to talk about.