Linda McCafferty retweeted
The merry go round of responsibility for NHS Scotland continues 👇
No regulator, consistent passing of the buck.
Patients and staff suffer.
No regulator, consistent passing of the buck.
Patients and staff suffer.
HIS says responsibility for improvement rests with the health board and its role is “not to design, direct or implement service changes”. It has raised the concerns with the Scottish Government.
The Scottish Government told The Herald it is “an operational matter” for NHSGGC.
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Linda McCafferty retweeted
Energy firm that built no wind farms paid some £60 million on dividends using Welsh pension funds investment
Serious allegations must be investigated that directors took millions for building nothing
thetimes.com/article/e068b2…
Serious allegations must be investigated that directors took millions for building nothing
thetimes.com/article/e068b2…
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Waiting pending gallbladder surgery, I've never read so many people having complications of stones falling out & left in stomach or bile duck , damage to bile duck or organs (bowel) leading to lengthy hospital stays - not so good to hear when you are an unpaid carer - 🤞for me .
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Our son was murdered by another NHS patient dailymail.com/lifestyle/arti… via @DailyMail`,
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Linda McCafferty retweeted
Elliot, now 6, needed a specialist wheelchair due to cerebral palsy from the age of 1. NHS eligibility criteria said he couldn't even be referred until he was 3. He waited another 3 months after that, missing specialist school because transport refused to take him without a chair
🚨 Thousands left waiting so long for NHS wheelchairs they suffer injuries and can be trapped at home. New @PublicServOmb report this week will expose a widespread systemic failure:
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
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Linda McCafferty retweeted
🚨 Thousands left waiting so long for NHS wheelchairs they suffer injuries and can be trapped at home. New @PublicServOmb report this week will expose a widespread systemic failure:
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
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Judge Judy's arrogance of the caring role & getting paid by the state for it🤦♀️ tiktok.com/@work.matter/v…
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Politicians are a lot like diapers, they should be changed frequently and for the same reason . youtube.com/shorts/lPMe6y5… via @YouTube
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Kilmarnock care worker called co-worker 'crabbit faced c***' dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/kilma…
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Linda McCafferty retweeted
NHS MADE HER SIGN A GAG ORDER. PARLIAMENT PROMISED TO STOP IT. BOTH LIED.
Sue Allison was a breast radiographer at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (@UHMBT) for nearly two decades. In 2012, she reported a senior radiologist who was repeatedly failing to diagnose r.
Two of those women died from cancers that should have been caught.
What happened next is the NHS playbook, start to finish.
She was ostracised. Bullied. Pushed out of her department. Blacklisted across the NHS so thoroughly that job applications in hospitals as far away as Kingston triggered questions about her whistleblowing.
She described her reputation as "absolutely destroyed."
After 34 years in the profession, she will never work in it again.
In 2015, with no legal advice, she was pressured into signing not one but two NDAs. The trust used those agreements to try to stop her from ever bringing a claim against them.
An employment tribunal later ruled both NDAs void. The judge found she had a clear case of whistleblower detriment.
By 2019, her case had reached Parliament.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) personally cited Sue Allison's NDAs in the House of Commons and declared he was "determined to end" the injustice of gagging NHS whistleblowers.
The ban was never enforced. Six years later, it still hasn't been.
She eventually settled her detriment claim in 2020 for financial compensation after admitting she would have had to sell her house to fund a full tribunal.
The trust thanked her for raising concerns. The same trust that silenced her for eight years.
She wasn't done. She became a governor of the same trust, trying to hold it to account from the inside.
In May 2023, she resigned. The bullying culture, she said, had never changed.
Governors asking legitimate questions about patient safety were being suppressed and eventually dismissed.
This case runs from 2012 to 2023. Eleven years. Same trust. Same culture. Same result for the people who spoke up.
The Morecambe Bay maternity scandal. The urology cover-up. The disputed emails. Peter Duffy. And Sue Allison, running through all of it, trying to hold the line, watching the institution close ranks every time.
Sources: @ComputerWeekly, @BylineTimes, Lancaster Guardian, @IndexCensorship,
Sue Allison was a breast radiographer at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (@UHMBT) for nearly two decades. In 2012, she reported a senior radiologist who was repeatedly failing to diagnose r.
Two of those women died from cancers that should have been caught.
What happened next is the NHS playbook, start to finish.
She was ostracised. Bullied. Pushed out of her department. Blacklisted across the NHS so thoroughly that job applications in hospitals as far away as Kingston triggered questions about her whistleblowing.
She described her reputation as "absolutely destroyed."
After 34 years in the profession, she will never work in it again.
In 2015, with no legal advice, she was pressured into signing not one but two NDAs. The trust used those agreements to try to stop her from ever bringing a claim against them.
An employment tribunal later ruled both NDAs void. The judge found she had a clear case of whistleblower detriment.
By 2019, her case had reached Parliament.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) personally cited Sue Allison's NDAs in the House of Commons and declared he was "determined to end" the injustice of gagging NHS whistleblowers.
The ban was never enforced. Six years later, it still hasn't been.
She eventually settled her detriment claim in 2020 for financial compensation after admitting she would have had to sell her house to fund a full tribunal.
The trust thanked her for raising concerns. The same trust that silenced her for eight years.
She wasn't done. She became a governor of the same trust, trying to hold it to account from the inside.
In May 2023, she resigned. The bullying culture, she said, had never changed.
Governors asking legitimate questions about patient safety were being suppressed and eventually dismissed.
This case runs from 2012 to 2023. Eleven years. Same trust. Same culture. Same result for the people who spoke up.
The Morecambe Bay maternity scandal. The urology cover-up. The disputed emails. Peter Duffy. And Sue Allison, running through all of it, trying to hold the line, watching the institution close ranks every time.
Sources: @ComputerWeekly, @BylineTimes, Lancaster Guardian, @IndexCensorship,
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Yes , and when we go in for surgery , there is no post-operative care/recovery time for us, we are expected to come home & carry on, in our caring role & get on with it - with no practical support offered . heraldscotland.com/news/26692621.…
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Scandal 'bigger than thalidomide' as UK children born with disabilities examinerlive.co.uk/news/health/sc…
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Teachers ‘not clinically trained’ to diagnose neurodivergence, MSPs told news.stv.tv/scotland/teach…
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#BereavedSiblingsMonth Her name is Nancy , my sister took from us, after planned elective surgery & never came home again .
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Yes, aging with health/disability of my own, now. Stuck in unsafe housing doing caring role, system won't recognise aging carer with needs.Expected to carry on caring, this is a national systemic issue - ScotGov Tom Arthur MSP was made aware, by myself . x.com/PaulRidley5/st…
Family Carers Has caring changed what you expected your own retirement or financial future to look like?
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OMG ......he was in supported accommodation ? x.com/SkyNews/status…
The family of an autistic British man, accused of drug smuggling in Turkey, say he's been exploited by a criminal gang.
He's now facing decades in prison. @skysarahjane has spoken exclusively to Louis' twin brother, Conor.
🇬🇧 The UK Tonight: youtube.com/watch?v=zC5s9y…
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