BBC Panorama's programme tonight about very poor quality care in some NHS hospitals and the misleading claims they had made about the quality of care

I watched BBC Panorama's programme tonight about very poor quality care in some NHS hospitals and the misleading claims they had made about the quality of that care. For many years I have myself experienced deplorable NHS care both as an in-patient and as an out-patient and indeed had my health wantonly and callously destroyed by the 'caring professions'. And I've had a lot of personal experience of their lies.

If you hold the view that the NHS is admirable and that we are fortunate to have it I very profoundly disagree with you. - You must be one of the lucky ones who has not yet been harmed by the NHS. You can view tonight's programme on the iPlayer here: Panorama: Trust Us We're an NHS Hospital.

Or you can read about it on this BBC News webpage. If you think that making a complaint remedies anything you are mistaken. Complaints are routinely ignored, and certainly not acted upon. They routinely add to the problems and suffering of the complainants. See Fighting the System.

I firmly believe the NHS does far more harm than good and that it should be scrapped.

A nurse called Lucia de Berk has been in prison for five years in Holland...

Lies, damned lies and statistics - Guardian

Extract:

"It is possible to be very unlucky indeed. A nurse called Lucia de Berk has been in prison for five years in Holland, convicted of seven counts of murder and three of attempted murder. An unusually large number of people died when she was on shift, and that, essentially, along with some very weak circumstantial evidence, is the substance of the case against her.

She has never confessed, but her trial has generated a small collection of theoretical papers in the statistics literature, and a government inquiry will report on her sentence in the next few weeks.

The judgment was largely based on a figure of "one in 342 million against". Now, even if we found errors in this figure, the figure itself would still be largely irrelevant. Unlikely things do happen: somebody wins the lottery every week; children are struck by lightning.

It is only significant that something very specific and unlikely happens if you have specifically predicted it beforehand."

It's well worth reading the whole of this thoughtful article.