Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

The Care Quality Commission's (CQC) warning comes after it looked at data from more than 13,000 inspections.

The regulator said staff pressures and the rise in complex cases seen in the ageing population meant everyone from hospitals to care homes was struggling.

Overall, one in four services failed at least one of the 16 key standards.

Among the most commonly failed areas were the standards relating to dignity and respect, nutrition, care and welfare and the workforce, which covers both numbers and skills of staff.

The regulator said the pressures on the system meant staff were increasingly unable to focus on the individual needs of people for whom they were caring.

Instead, they were essentially running through to-do lists in the way they

Cannot dispute Maistone hospitals are bad, but they are certainly not in this area.

Careless", "insincere" and "unclear" communication has fuelled a surge in complaints against the NHS in England, the health service ombudsman has said.

Her report says the NHS needs to improve the way it deals with patients unhappy with the care they have had.

It also highlights an increase in complaints about independent providers offering care to NHS patients.

A patients' group said the NHS needed a "cultural change" in the way it handled complaints.

The health service ombudsman is a "last port of call" for people unhappy with their NHS care or with how a complaint has been handled locally.

In all, it received 16,333 complaints in the year 2011-12.

But just under 11,000 of those were redirected to other organisations

dream in most cases it is down to the racist card .

dream i had a big hop but went private in the nuffield excellent .
cost me over 42k .
2005

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You never have much to say on the positive side for the country, so why do you stay here ?

I have private insurance Tanker.

The scandal came to light because of an investigation by the Healthcare Commission into the operation of Stafford Hospital in Stafford, England. The commission was first alerted by the "apparently high mortality rates in patients admitted as emergencies".[1] When the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for running the hospital, failed to provide what the commission considered an adequate explanation, a full-scale investigation was carried out between March and October 2008.[1] Released in March 2009, the commission's report severely criticized the Foundation Trust's management and detailed the appalling conditions and inadequacies at the hospital. Many press reports suggested that because of the substandard care between 400 and 1200 more patients died between 2005 and 2008 than would be expected for the type of hospital,[2][3] though in fact such ‘excess’ death statistics did not appear in the final Healthcare Commission report.[4]

As a result, the trust's chief executive, Martin Yeates, was suspended (with full pay), while its chairman, Toni Brisby, resigned.[3] Both Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Health Secretary Alan Johnson apologized to those who suffered at the hospital.[3][5] Also in response to the scandal, the mortality rates of all National Health Service hospitals have been made accessible on a website.[6]

In March 2009 it was revealed that executives who had run the NHS trust at the time actually received promotions within the health service. Most notably Cynthia Bower, who was from 2006 chief executive of the trust's parent body, NHS West Midlands, was recruited to run the Care Quality Commission quango.[7]

On 21 July 2009, the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Burnham, announced a further independent inquiry into care provided by Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust. The generally critical inquiry report was published on 24 February 2010. The report made 18 local and national recommendations, including that the regulator, Monitor, de-authorise the Foundation Trust.[8]

Compensation payments averaging £11,000 were paid to some of the families involved.[9]

In February 2010, Burnham agreed to a further independent inquiry of the commissioning, supervisory and regulatory bodies for Foundation Trusts.[8]

[edit] Public inquiry

CYNIC . just for you

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dream i am lucky i have money so can have what i want .
but the poor can not they are treated very badly
and looking back to the war they died invane died for nothing

T can even afford a bespoke soap-box made from finest english oak

I cannot understand why you do not have health insurance from what you state (you may have ) the premiums would be a fraction of the £40+ grand you have spent out.

I think a good percentage of investors have money here, but dont have to keep posting they do.

Reminds me of the story of a patient being sent to hospital with a note,to have a malignancy cut out.

The note read;- "please keep the patient and send the malignancy back home".

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i think i am right in saying that private health insurance actually subsidises NHS in some way

We have a private hospital near by (Sawbridgeworth) and they in lull times take in NHS patients.

Which I have been told keeps my costs down.

Cynic,

Depends.

The majority of medical staff in PHI are trained in the NHS at expense to the public.

The majority of the their medical school studies were/are paid for or subsidised by the public purse.

Complex ongoing medical care is often renegaded on by PHI "protection" and returned to "public care".

Many with ongoing medical conditions needing drugs, have them provided by the NHS at considerable costs.

Nothing is ever simple!