Tuesday, January 13, 2015

National Patient Safety Adviser battening down the hatches?

I don't like to indulge in tittle-tattle, but as all complainants and whistleblowers know, informal communication networks sometimes have a great deal more of the truth than the formal ones. So it seems somewhat paradoxical that apparently trenchant critics of the system who experienced obstruction are now apparently the worst culprits!
James Titcombe, the National Patient Safety Adviser at the CQC, is incredibly unpopular if the complaints I hear about him are anything to go by. He has blocked a large number of relatives and complainants who have criticized him for doing nothing, despite promises to the contrary. In fact, his behaviour seems like exactly the sort of behaviour he himself complained of.
He and other campaigners that have all had the patronage of the current government have been amazingly quiet about the Hinchingbrooke disaster, preferring to post about Andy Burnham. Rather inappropriate now that Jeremy Hunt must be held responsible for the current state of the NHS.

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  1. Quite right - they have become the very people they claimed in the past to despise. One has to question why JT is employed by CQC given that he has no appropriate qualifications or training for such a role and looks like he's spends most of his time either on twitter or following up his own personal NHS complaint - I for one think my tax should be put to better use.

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    1. Indeed, and James Titcombe is overtly political which seems totally inappropriate.

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