PRESS RELEASE
Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates call for the inspectors' report on East Kent hospitals to be taken seriously.
" Patients deserve the best care and dedicated staff deserve the best management. Hospital Trusts are complex organisations and it is difficult for individuals to hold them to account. Expert inspections are an essential part of keeping hospitals well run. "We can't pretend everything in the garden is rosy" says George Cunningham, "I hear from hardworking and caring staff who love their jobs but have been frustrated by poor management, and from patients whose experiences have been a mixture of the outstandingly good and the quite unacceptable."
" Patients deserve the best care and dedicated staff deserve the best management. Hospital Trusts are complex organisations and it is difficult for individuals to hold them to account. Expert inspections are an essential part of keeping hospitals well run. "We can't pretend everything in the garden is rosy" says George Cunningham, "I hear from hardworking and caring staff who love their jobs but have been frustrated by poor management, and from patients whose experiences have been a mixture of the outstandingly good and the quite unacceptable."
Russ Timpson went on to say,”Basically we all want to know that patients will be safe and well cared for in hospital. The report highlights important areas for improvement in A&E and general management and should be acted upon without delay.
"We both think the response from Conservative MPs to simply dismiss the report out of hand is quite wrong. The report must be looked at carefully to see how our hospitals can be improved. There is no room for complacency.”
The two lib dem twins become more annoying every time they speak. Why have we never heard of them before now?
ReplyDeletea contradictory statement I think
ReplyDeletePedantry becomes you Tone who are these drongos or are you a Ukipper now
DeleteHow nice. George agrees with Russ and Russ agrees with George. But wait....Tony now agrees with Nigel!
DeleteI agree with Farage where is the legitimacy of the EU the British people have never been allowed to discuss the Mission Creep from European Economic Community to a nightmare inhabited by crazed Eurocrats and supported by a passive middle class happy to exploit the working classes.
DeleteYou must have been out drinking with Farage to come out with that waffle if he'd let you in his City club in overalls. The UK voted to join the EU and elected Meps for every law good or bad since. Farage is in the EU and achieved no reforms at all in years.
DeleteTony has gone all revolutionary socialist worker now. Any day soon he'll cover all the political bases and join plaid cymru.
DeleteUp the workers! Unless they're romanian....controlling the eu...even though they've only just joined it....ruining tdc...
DeleteTony's logic is unravelling: his LibDem candidate George Cunnignham is a Eurocrat having spent 25 years in the EU foreign service!! Isn't it illegal for civil servants to stand for Parliament? Or is he hedging his bets and not giving up the cushy Brussels role Tony despises? And Farage of course has spent as long in Brussels doing nothing.
Deleteyes serving civil servants are banned from standing as MP's. Presumably that applies to EU civil servants too -otherwise like the Taiwan visit (which Cunningham represents) they can manipulate policy?
Deletethinking aloud maybe Farage would have to resign as MEP to stand as MP or hedging his bets and stay on unless he wins?
DeleteSo they are both banned from standing? Hahaha
DeletePerhaps the reason Farage has achieved no reforms in Europe is down to the fact that MEPs have no teeth, they are merely gofers.
DeleteThe EU is a totalitarian dictatorship, it's 'laws' are drafted out by unelected working groups, based on diktats passed down from the UN. This marxist script is then voted on by unelected commissars, who have been selected by the establishment elite of the land they represent, photographically compromised of course, and with a proven track record of treason against the people of their fatherland (otherwise they would simply not be eligible for the post.)
All the MEPs can do, is observe proceedings and take the floor occasionally for a rant about the commies taking over, etc.
Which I must admit, Farage is a bit of a grand master of, although that is surely part of the script... or am I being overly cynical?
And then he or she must relay the new regs back to the folks at home. That's basically it.
I forgot to mention that the unelected working groups that draft the 'laws' are well looked after by the lobbying racket.
DeleteSheer nonsense again Bluenote a fantasy of your own like your comment below on the government destroying the nhs or the thanet gun range. The Eu has introduced tougher laws on say pollution than uk
DeleteI now nothing about any Thanet gun range, anon 11:12, although I get the feeling that in your fantasy world, you must believe you are on the winning team. Let me assure you that to these Eurocrats, you and I are nothing more than cattle.
DeleteWhy would we listen to your random opinions? The discussion was around whether Cunningham is barred as a civil servant. You often mention gun ranges don't you
DeleteWhat are you, some sort of government troll? Getting the rent paid on your bedsit by the welfare system, right?
DeleteHaha, cracked it!
As random as your 1666 conspiracy. ..and as offtopic as the likes of Lyndon T Palmer and Richard Card. You should meet them and find out about the gun ranges nonsense
DeleteI have been a patient at all three of the East Kent hospitals and have to say I've never had cause for complaint. I am not suggesting "everything in the garden is rosy", but the report does seem to have gone way over the top. I think that is what certain local MPsare saying. I do wonder if there is a deliberate attempt to rubbish the NHS providers so that there is less opposition to bringing in private operators.
ReplyDeleteThere is a deliberate attempt to destroy the NHS, by the government, through bad (nefarious?) management, in order to hasten privatisation.
DeleteOne has to feel sympathy for the medical staff who despite the adverse conditions, still try to provide a good service.
The nhs has kept quiet on the health hazards from southern water or thor etc
DeleteBack to the topic should farage be banned from thanet as a racist or non-local candidate. Both seem relevant reasons?
DeleteThere does seem something wrong when all the candidates do not live in the area and all arr announced just for the election
DeleteWorrying in terms of business sense if they're all backing Manston although Driver is starting to call for Plan B several months after it shut...you couldn't make it up
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Deletetop tip if you want to publish anonymous comments with unsubstantiated allegations do it elsewhere
DeletePollution at sericol isn't unsubstantiated flaigy...there's a major clean up going on....where have you been?
DeleteThe denial of the pollution is quite incredible
Deletewhat is the evidence?
DeleteEvidence? The environment agency removing tons of polluted water at poorhole lane. How about evidence for Thor not being polluted if that's what you're saying?
DeleteThor is as bad with the toxic waste spreading beyond the factory to the housing estates
DeleteFlaigy: a book called The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplin details a medics site visit to Thor Margate with workers with blue gums from mercury poisoning. It was then featured on World in Action. Need any more evidence?
DeleteA pity that, for some, issues surrounding the bloody airport - whether they support its existence or oppose it - are considered more important than anything else. Even the condition of local health services.
ReplyDeleteSir Roger Gale, MP for Thanet North, said the report was "disproportionate and irresponsible" and would "cause unnecessary public alarm".
ReplyDelete"I think the CQC (care qualitycommision) is inadequate and ought to be looking at itself," he said.
Another report that Gale does not like as it could harm his chances of being re-elected. What next he will say?
The report was so disproportionate....the NHS CEO Stuart Bain has resigned! Gale is useless the sooner we're rid of him the better.
DeleteActually, the Chief Executive announced some time before the CQC report that he would be retiring for (genuine) health reasons. That is known by every member of staff within the Trust
DeleteHmmmm maybe so but the report was very critical. Should he have gone sooner because he would be after that report...
DeleteIris in the Gazette saying everything is wonderful after her first 3 months. She's done nothing. Why has nothing happened with Dreamland and Pleasurama. Just another Buggins Turn Duffer
ReplyDeleteWho will replace her?
DeleteEveritt was torn to shreds in a Gazette letter over the Port finances. He seems a Bullshatter too.
Delete21 KCC staff earning over £100k and every district council ceo. Plus the NHS etc. And pensions and payoffs. Why do the councillors not curb this waste
DeleteSimon moores blaming his resignation on the oldfield farce. Rather isn't it the 0% issue. He should explain that to the police. ..
ReplyDeleteIris doesn't seem to have done anything in 3 months. Same as the Ramsgate granny mayor. The civil servants are running rings round them
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