Kenneth Lownds's Comments
Comment on: NHS earmarks £300m to put hospitals through failure regime
Do I understand £2.5m for 6 months' work at Mid Staffs? Cure the NHS have pointed out to David Bennett fundamental flaws in the report published yesterday; we expect him to act on them. We are still asking for sight of the McKinsey report of May 2011, the CSIP; done for Monitor but paid for by the hospital. How much did that cost? Did it not not tackle similar issues and come to very much the same conclusions? Didn't McKinsey, in May 2011 leave the CCGs and hospital to formulate an action plan, consult on it, implement it. I haven't checked but I think it should have been done and dusted by now. UHNS + MSFT = UHS. Cure the NHS - Stafford
Comment on: Mid Staffs Foundation Trust 'too small' to be sustainable
Care safe? So what about these people contacting our group about recent cases, some already reported in other parts of the media? Over the new year break we had to get the local MP involved. UHNS + MSFT = UHS? Wasn't all of this in Dr Penny Dash's report presented to the MSFT board in May 2011? Cure the NHS - Stafford
Comment on: Nicholson seeks "legitimacy" amidst a storm of protest
Better start reading Nicholson's evidence, Alastair! Of course he wasn't "genuinely shocked". He was closely involved in the appointment of failed Mid Staffs chief exec Martin Yeates and acted as a mentor to him. During his frenetic tenure as boss of all SHAs in the region and to get appointed as NHS chief exec in 2005 he set out to impress Patsy Hewitt by removing the entire board at UHNS and sending in Antony Sumara plus a Deloitte 'turnround' team; UHNS problem? Big deficit. What did he do for Mid Staffs in 2005 also struggling with years of deficits and already also struggling with serious safety issues (read Dr Peter Daggett's evidence)? Started them on the path to FT status because he needed at least one on his patch or Patsy wouldn't be impressed! Within a month of Mid Staffs becoming an FT the Healthcare Commission were starting to uncover the horror of that sad institution! Brilliant judgement by Nicholson wouldn't you say, Alastair? Of course Nicholson did what Burnham, Johnson, Hewitt, Reid, Milburn all wanted, but his own day-by-day 'command and control' crushed the culture of care across the NHS. Our members suffered harm and death from this regime. From 2006 Nicholson was the faithful political tool in Richmond House. "Scapegoat"? Is that what he told you? Never. In May 2008 when Ian Kennedy told Nicholson about the Healthcare Commission investigation into Mid Staffs what action did Nicholson take to prevent further harm and death? Utterly and absolutely nothing. What did Cynthia Bower his successor in the SHA do to prevent further harm and death at Mid Staffs? She and her team worked hard to undermine the investigation and set out to undermine Dr Foster's HSMRs; read the evidence of all Healthcare Commission witnesses. Hence an obvious choice for CQC boss. Under Nicholson and his predecessors from Mid Staffs 'zero star day' in 2004 self-assessment rather than inspection turned this part of the regulation of all healthcare into a sham and a charade. Now the nonsense in this interview. Another year of Nicholson counting the bedpans in the big teaching hospitals (including UHNS, soon to swallow Mid Staffs?) and the NHS will be finished. Solution? After Nicholson's departure frontline NHS staff themselves rebuilding the culture of care on the wards and throughout the NHS. Nicholson's plan is clearly to keep them and every single NHS staff member under his thumb. Cure the NHS - Stafford
Comment on: Nicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations
Dear 2.20. Some of us had to read all of the evidence and attend the sessions as part of our campaign. All my fellow-members in Cure the NHS lost loved ones or were themselves harmed. Believe you me the 'sham and charade' is a well-chosen phrase. The title of Julie Bailey's book 'From Ward to Whitehall' is an accurate summary of responsibility for the disaster. Nicholson acted as mentor to discredited chief exec at Mid Staffs Martin Yeates and as I recall was part of the selection panel for his appoitnment. But please also read our Blueprint for a New NHS. It's a radical plan for you folks on the front line, all of you, to say to the leadership "We accept the challenge! We will rebuild a new, zero harm NHS." Don't wait for the report! Ken Lownds, Cure the NHS Stafford.
Comment on: Nicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations
Brass neck it is. David Nicholson's command and control style crushed the culture of care in the NHS. Why do NHS chief execs report they are bullied? Nicholson regime. Why is the NHS so badly outmoded in all aspects of patient safety? Nicholson regime. (The Cure the NHS concept of Zero Harm Healthcare is way ahead of them) Who designed the sham and charade called the CQC? Nicholson's buddy Bower, no need to say more. Who is mounting the frantic press operation at Stafford Hospital to swamp the media coverage on the day Robert Francis reports? David Nicholson? Who will be a mega-embarrassment to Jeremy Hunt on report day? David Nicholson. For goodness sake David, go now! Ken Lownds, Cure the NHS Stafford
Comment on: Nurses need freedom to do their jobs properly
Well said Anon 15 Dec. It's called exculpation. Are you familiar with his comments to the Stafford press and his letter to the Director of Nursing after his visit to Stafford Hospital at a critical time in the Healthcare Commission's Investigation of the disastrous care there, May 2008? Robert Francis is. Cure the NHS told the Public Inquiry RCN should close down in its current form because it is not a professional body and there must be one. If RCN wants to be just another union, fine. It cannot properly represent directors of nursing who are the people who control nurse numbers and frontline nurses delivering the care. Cure the NHS's New Year resolution for Peter! Just go! Cure the NHS - Stafford
Comment on: Bring in hospital 'superheads' to tackle poor performance, says Hunt
Hey!!! What's wrong with Stafford? I can think Robert Naylor on a train to Stafford; tomorrow please! Cure the NHS - Stafford
Comment on: Hunt: Francis could lead to more reorganisation
Why should the DH be given preferential treatment? Are Nicholson and his cohort not one of the prime 'guilty parties' ? Under no circumstances should any of them comment to Jeremy Hunt or any other minister until after the report has been taken to the House of Commons; that is what Andrew Lansley set up, tough! We will be writing to Robert Francis tomorrow. Cure the NHS Stafford
Comment on: Duty of candour will cost NHS £130m in 10 years
If there has been one announcement from DH which demonstrates that they have utterly and absolutely no understand of patient safety and safety systems, quality and quality systems it is this. Cure the NHS - Stafford
Comment on: NHS seeks legal advice over Mid Staffs CEO job
What are you thinking about Anon 1:59? Who is 'vilifying' him? Please give us your evidence. Cure the NHS - Stafford
