Thursday, August 8, 2013

Cure the NHS and patient safety

Cure the NHS and patient safety


Cure the NHS have in the past highlighted poor care in Mid Staffs. That should be applauded. However, more recent activity should give rise to concern. Julie Bailey has Tweeted that case note reviews to ascertain whether there have been avoidable deaths is a waste of time as "Case notes as evidence is a myth" ( http://themedicaljournalistoncall.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/cure-nhs-or-nhs-gremlins.html ).
Cure the NHS has not been behind the campaign to save Stafford Hospital despite all the improvements made in quality. Cure supporters continue to quote the HSMR figures despite this being clearly inappropriate ( http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/at-last-the-truth-about-stafford-hospital-starts-to-go-mainstream/ ). They have repeated the now debunked myth about patients drinking water from flower vases. 
Worse of all they continue to attack those who dispute their version of events, making repeated attacks without any proof against local people. In fact their contempt for local people is quite extreme, and no doubt has contributed to their unpopularity among people who are surely in an ideal position to judge the quality of care at Stafford DGH. Stafford people wish to keep local hospital services, and sadly Cure have never made any commitment to assisting with that. 

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