NHS

Stories

• 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".

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.