http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21341766
Bankers slink off with their bonuses. No one is sent to jail for their criminal misdeeds
Now the doctors , nurses and managers of the health service leave their patients to die
and no one is charged with a crime. The senior managers slip away with their pay offs.
We have a lengthy report.
We have a new inspector.
But what we need is a new culture.
No: we need the old one back. People came together out of a desire to provide a caring service to all of us, when the NHS was founded not long before I was born.
The NHS that I worked for in the 80's had lost all that, and today it is much worse.
We have a culture of box ticking. Tick the box to say you did it and everyone will be happy, except the patient. You are forbidden to admit that you did not do your job right.
Everything is audited, then audited, then inspected, everything except the reality of care.
So it is that in a large hospital the patients can be neglected and abused and left to die for years, and the perpetrators are immune from detection and punishment.
The audits were OK. The bean counters had counted beans.
And because the boxes were ticked no one is held accountable.
What we need is not another level of inspection.
We need old fashioned values back; honesty, compassion, service, dedication.
There are two fundamental forces in our human world my friends. They are love (Eros) and the will to power (Thanatos).
The NHS was founded on love. It has been taken over by the will to power.
