NHS

Stories

• Some NHS centres are more than twice as likely to diagnose autism than others.
• Employees are deployed to Gaza in UK funded hospitals.
• Nine year old Jewish boy was ordered off hospital bed and made to sit on the floor by nurses wearing pro-Palestine badges.
• Setup "Greener NHS team" with a combined salary of £3million per year, including 5 6-figure roles.
• Introduced electric ambulances which requires hours to charge at the cost of £150,000 per unit despite trials revealing major concerns.
• Rejected healthcare products due to plastics on the basis of environmental grounds, despite improving healthcare outcomes.
• NHS suppliers must have a carbon reduction plan.
• Rolled out GP visits via e-bikes initiative.
• Created the climate-friendly pain relief initiative.
• Freedom of Information requests submitted in 2022 to 6,000 public bodies including the NHS found they employed around 10,000 diversity and inclusion staff, at a cost of £557 million a year to the taxpayer.
• Removed the word "women" from documentation to conform to gender neutral language.
• Hospitals have lost over £180million to "health tourists" over 5 years.
• Exams could be scrapped for overseas applicants.
• Spends a £10bn a year on temporary staff.
• Drug-induced milk from transgender women who were born male is as good for babies as a mother's breast milk, says University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
• Skin cancer diagnosis delays caused by lockdowns led to 12,000 years of life lost.
• York Hospital apologised after a sign was placed in its library describing South Asian snacks as "very smelly".
• Youth gender services will provide masculinising and feminising hormones to children from "around their 16th birthday".
• Female workers suspended by NHS chiefs after complaining about sharing changing room with trans woman.
• Half of nursing students in England have considered quitting.
• Research suggests that half of foreign doctors are not fit to practise in the UK.
• English speaking patients are being pushed to the back of the queue in waiting rooms at NHS hospitals in favour of patients who need an interpreter.
• Offering "Muslim Hospital Chaplain" job for £44,962 salary.
• 179 employees from St Thomas Hospital protest for Israel to release prisoners.
• Jess Phillips claimed that voting for a ceasfire in Gaza helped reduce her NHS waiting time.
• The Grange University Hospital obstructed parents identifying their sons clinician after he died from sepsis.
• Lead psychologist at the Tavistock remains free to practice despite being caught grooming a schoolboy for sex in a park.
• Migrants mostly responsible for the more than 6000 new HIV cases in 2023, each costing the taxpayer up to £404,000 over their lifetime.
• Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch.
• 72% of struck off doctors are from overseas.
• Posie Parker removed from local GP for using pronouns which a staff member did not like.
• Poor care is treated as normal.
• Started legal proceedings to stop someone seeking treatment abroad, calling her delusional and judges put a gag order on the patient not to speak in public about her medical issues.
• Patients told to stay at home due to reports of a ceiling collapse, despite there being no roof collapse.
• 400GB of patient data hacked and put on the dark web.
• Assistant Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion job £91,317 for NHS England.
• Doctors failed to recognise a complete heart blockage on an ECG and died due to "negligent medical care".
• Claims that black males suffer from psychotic disorders more than 10x than white males.
• Drug which slows the onset of Alzheimers is too expensive for the NHS to distribute.
• Baby boy died after being starved of oxygen as midwives joked about eating "too many Haribo" and their pay - while ignoring mother's calls for help for 40 minutes.
• Patient died after collapsing in Nottingham A&E and waiting 8hours under a coat.
• Staff told to ask men if they are pregnant before X-rays.
• People who are racist to NHS staff should be refused care.
• Doctor repeatedly made unwanted advances to two women while working in A&E department at North Manchester General Hospital.
• Afghani lady worked as a ward manager at Princess of Wales Hospital for 4 months without any qualifications.
• Receptionist delayed a mans healthcare treatment because of his potential immigration status.
• Royal College of Physicians issued guidance that tells doctors to raise the topic during consultations and "repeat it often".
• Allowed violent sex criminal to leave a secure facility who then went on to attack 7 women including violently raping one.

Infected Blood Scandal

• In the infected blood scandal: Children were used as "objects for research" in clinical trials.
• Documents were destroyed in "downright deception".
• The inquiry concludes that victims were betrayed over decades by successive governments.
• More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions with bout 3,000 have since died.
• Chair Sir Brian Langstaff: "This disaster was not an accident. The infections happened because those in authority - doctors, the blood services and successive governments did not put patient safety first. The response of those in authority served to compound peoples suffering."
• The compensation package for the scandal is expected to cost taxpayers £10billion.

Competence

• The Care Quality Commission found examples of staff falsifying records and assaulting patients at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
• 3rd worst for healthcare outcomes in the developed World.
• 2nd worst for avoidable mortality in the developed World.
• 2nd worst for out-of-hours access to care in the developed World.
• 2nd worst for doctors spending enough time with patients in the developed World.
• Worst for stroke mortality in the developed World.
• More than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies incinerated in two years and disposed with other hospital rubbish.
• More than 4million avoidable deaths since 2001.
• Jessica's cancer was missed 20 times by GPs. A single private consultation gave the correct diagnosis.
• Autism diagnosis wait times hit 300 days.
• GP surgeries could be earning £1b per year from patients who don't exist.
• Rugby player waited more than 5hours in agony for ambulance and then developed sepsis in Bristol hospital.
• Hospital staff in William Harvey Hospital deliberately slowed down operations to limit the number of patients they had to see.
• More than 30 members of staff from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have been suspended amid an ongoing investigation after maltreatment of patients and falsification of mental health observations.
• Whistleblowers accuse Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust of poor culture that led to deaths of babies that could have been avoided.
• Hundreds queue in three hour long queue in the cold for a new NHS dental practice.
• Nurses being investigated for "industrial-scale" qualifications fraud after 700 nurses were found to have use proxies to pass tests in Nigeria enabling them to work in the UK.

Tavistock Transgender Clinic

• Green zealotry is affecting healthcare outcomes.
• Staff were unable to speak out against the practices of the clinic for fear of being labelled bigoted.
• Joked that the clinic was conversion therapy for homosexuals and that "there would be no gay people left".
• 80 to 90 percent of referrals to the Tavistock gender clinic were attracted to others of the same sex.
• More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to Tavistock transgender clinic.
• Tavistock patient says she feels like an "experiment gone wrong" after mastectomy made her feel a lot worse.
• An independent review found it was "not safe".
• 382 children aged six and under were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service run by Tavistock.
• The clinic had no lower age limit on referrals.
• Tavistock are unable to provide figures on those who have undergone physical interventions.
• Many former staff from Tavistock facility set up private gender clinic Gender Plus.
• An independent review warned there was not enough research on the impact of hormones prescribed by Tavistock.
• Tavistock had a policy of an unquestioning affirmative approach to gender identity.