Protecting their own

It’s what bureaucrats do, whether they are MD bureaucrats, Gen. bureaucrats, community organizer bureaucrats …

‘Worshipping the NHS costs lives’

“Young and old alike are dying needlessly – eight a day, in what Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, rightly calls a silent scandal. The latest shocking revelation is that the official health watchdog suppressed the truth about baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital. Before, it was a report into hundreds of mainly old people dying in hideous circumstances in the bloodstained wards of two mid-Staffordshire hospitals. Regularly, there are stories of disabled people dying of discrimination; Mencap has logged more than 100 in six years.

“It is beyond belief that the managers who oversaw the sordid events in mid-Staffs were rewarded with the top NHS jobs. … Sir David Nicholson was the bungling local bureaucrat who failed to stop the deaths as he focused on cost-cutting and mergers – yet the entire NHS was placed in his hands. His successor was Cynthia Bower, who said the situation ‘wasn't on my radar’ and blithely told an inquiry: ‘Mistakes are made, people do die unnecessarily.’ She was put at the helm of the body protecting patients.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/worshipping-the-nhs-costs-lives-8669701.html

From http://anenglishmanscastle.com/

(Can’t wait until we get the same kind of system. Well, maybe I can.)