The Daily Telegraph investigation exposes corrupt practices in the metal on metal medical devices saga

Journalists from the Telegraph have been investigating the scandal of the faulty 'metal on metal' hip implants. These implants have caused increased pain and disability for patients, some of whose experiences are highlighted in this article. All too often the agencies that the public looks to to safeguard our health and well-being turn out, as in this case, to do the opposite - at great cost in personal suffering to the patients involved and in financial cost to the NHS and the wider economy. In this article we read:

 

"The European system of regulation has prompted widespread concern over whether medical experts are really at the vanguard of deciding which devices can be implanted in patients. 

 The Daily Telegraph and the British Medical Journal therefore decided to investigate the rigour of the licensing process, amid allegations that dozens of private companies are competing with one another to offer licences for medically questionable devices. Was profit being put before patient safety?"

And of course when you read the article you cannot but conclude that profit is indeed being put before patient safety. This is but one of the many undesirable consequences of our present membership of the EU, notorious as it is for corruption and waste. The Telegraph carries an analysis of the flawed regulatory system, written by Carl Heneghan. I urge you to read it, and to put yourself in the place of the innocent victims of this chicanery.

Read this and weep!

Mary Riddell's article in the Telegraph about the horrors of Stafford Hospital and the NHS

As well as Mary Riddell's frank article, be sure to read the comments below it. No-one should comfort themselves that the Stafford Hospital scandal is a one-off. - It very clearly is not.

UK's Whitehall and other Departmental waste...

Ministers waste £2billion on computer projects

Article in the Telegraph. - Extract:

"Ministers have wasted nearly £2 billion - or £33 for every man, woman and child in Britain - on scrapped computer projects over the past seven years, a survey has found.

Blunders overseen by Whitehall have included the £486 million computer upgrade at the Child Support Agency and an adult learning programme that was subjected to extensive fraud.

The Department for Work and Pensions wasted more than £1.6 billion by abandoning three schemes including a new benefit card based on outdated technology."

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Britain's dirty hospitals breed disease...)o:

Among the Daily Letters to the Telegraph today, under a sub-heading of "Our dirty hospitals breed disease", is this letter:

"Sir - I am a patient in a ward of a large East Midlands hospital. My bedding has not been changed for six days and the hand disinfectant provided at the bottom of the bed is almost never used.

The daily cleaning of the ward consists of a cursory dry mop, followed by an even more cursory wipe over with a wet mop loaded with dirty water.

Visiting one of the hospital departments, I found so much litter in the corridors that I picked up some and put it in a bin to avoid embarrassing visitors. There is one shower for more than 30 patients, and cutlery and glass-wear seems poorly washed.

By my bed is a cotton-wool swab that has been there since I arrived. I am leaving it to see how long it is before a "cleaner" removes it. I expect the swab to be my longest hospital acquaintance when I leave.

Exotic diseases must be expected in such disgraceful conditions."

The writer of the letter correctly realises that disgraceful conditions like this should be given the oxygen of publicity. - 'Complaining' to the hospital staff directly would be likely to have no effect other than to become thought of as a trouble-maker.


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Best and worst hospitals in the UK

Welcome to the Hospital Guide - Telegraph


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NHS trust hospitals are not taking basic steps to stop the spread of infection

Hospital failings allow superbugs to spread - Telegraph

Extracts:

"Thousands of patients risk contracting potentially deadly superbugs because NHS hospitals are not taking basic steps to stop the spread of infection, research for The Daily Telegraph reveals today.

An independent study of 167 NHS hospital trusts in England found that infection control was in a state of disarray, with hospitals unable to reassure the public that they are screening and isolating enough infected patients.

Only 10 of the trusts surveyed could provide data showing that they had isolated more than 90 per cent of individuals with MRSA - a standard that infection control experts regard as fundamental in the battle against hospital-acquired bugs. "

"Deaths linked to hospital superbugs have increased dramatically.

Government figures show that between 2004 and 2005, the number of deaths recorded as associated with MRSA rose 39 per cent. Those that mentioned Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) rose by 69 per cent. Data from the Office for National Statistics showed that mentions of C. difficile on death certificates rose from 2,247 in 2004 to 3,807 the following year, while mentions of MRSA rose from 1,168 to 1,629."


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A sympathetic article about Sally Clark and her suffering.

No redemption for Sally Clark - article in The Daily Telegraph

Extract:

"Sally Clark walked out of prison four years ago, but she was never set free. Not in her head. Not in her own mind, where the demons still raged and screamed, even though the persona she showed to the outside world was bland and contained. The ordeal of being wrongly convicted for the murder of her two baby sons, then serving more than three years of a prison sentence and being released only on her second appeal was one that Clark could not recover from.

Who could? The look on her face, as she stood outside the High Court in January 2003, told its own story. In her moment of vindication, when it was proved that her sons had been cot death victims all along, Clark did not look triumphant or happy."

The Daily Telegraph asks on its pages today, "How can we save the NHS?" - Here is my simple solution.

The Daily Telegraph asks on its pages today, "How can we save the NHS?" - Comments are invited. (Daily Telegraph webpage) - Unfortunately my contribution was not selected for inclusion. - Here is (roughly) the comment I sent:

"Abandon the discredited calorie reduction advice as treatment for obesity! Calorie counting and advice about increasing exercise and reducing fat and carbohydrate intake to reduce obesity are ineffective, counter-productive and often damaging. - See the article in the British Medical Journal of November 2003 British Medical Journal article for actual research on what happens when this advice is followed! - Over 800 obese adults were put on energy deficit diets, given diet sheets and plenty of instruction and help from trained staff, and apparently, visited fortnightly for a year, at the end of which they had GAINED weight! This mirrors the real experience of obese people, viz. - dieting makes you fat.

It is fluid retention that causes excess weight, not over-eating. - Just look around you. - You can always see slim people overeating and not becoming overweight - and it is not because they are taking lots of exercise. - It is because they do not suffer from fluid retention.

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