If David Nicholson is offered up as the sacrificial lamb to the Tory press when the Francis report is published tomorrow, who will David Cameron and his Sooty puppy Jeremy Hunt choose to be the next Chief Executive of the NHS?
I bet you can't get a bookie to give you a price on Mr Mark Britnell, the head of KPMG's Global Health sector who once said:
“In future, the NHS will be a state insurance provider not a state deliverer.
“The NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years.”
Not that David Cameron has the faintest idea who he is, of course.
Bob; There’s one thing certain, it wont be Len McCluskey or Mark Serwotka. Nichollson was topdog at Doncaster Royal Infirmary/Doncaster P.C.T. or whatever it was called in those days,when my missus worked there(she can’t remember wether he was in the party that was ambushed by a crowd of angry auxiliaries/domestics/nurses who were pursuing Kenneth Clarke, then Health Secretary on a visit to D.R.I. during one of the big pay disputes in the N.H.S. in the early 80s. The story go’s that Clarke had to change his trousers twice that day)I think Nichollson will survive , he’s the guy they owe for getting bringing the coalitions N.H.S. butchery through Whitehall, the Lords and Commons were a piece of cake compared to the administrative problems;plus it’ll be just like the Metropolitan Police’s or West Midlands police topbrass not resigning for the many scandals they have endured.
But if I’m not mistaken it will be Mark’s members applying the benefits cap etc… whilst they call for Councils to set illegal budgets. No doubt fighting to the last drop of our blood!
You mean, after the details of the concentration camp regime operating in the Staffs area hospital, you would actually show them some mercy?
It depends who ‘them’ are…and I can’t find any reference to me advocating mercy to anyone. It’s not in my nature.
Hello Bob
I’ve read some of the online report and I see Cameron has apologised for the shocking mess at Stafford hospital during 2005-09, do you think the member for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath or the former MP for Sedgefield will comment?
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/@ps/documents/digitalasset/dh_113069.pdf
Bob,I was sickened reading the witness statements
I presume you think they are personally responsible. Tell me, do you think the MP for Witney was responsible for the shocking mental and physical abuse of people with learning disabilities at Winterbourne View under his watch?
Perhaps I could point you to this from Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Health, to Parliament, after the first Francis Report:
Hello Bob , just seen the TV prog and Alan’s apology (respect) but it needs more than apologies and I feel a criminal investigation may be next, especially with another 6 hospitals being investigated
Unlikely I would have thought. Francis specifically described a systems failure and urged that scapegoating individuals would not resolve that. As Johnson said, you can criticise the target culture, but in the Tory years thousands died on waiting lists because there were no targets.
Hello Bob, for the Grace of God go you and I and MP’s are PTFE coated.
But when councils take over some audit or NHS Commissioning function’s, now that’s an
interesting scenario
Commissioners and accountants never get the blame. You barely hear a squeak about the Commissioners or the money crunchers role in Mid Staffs, only the providers, with the poor bloody infantry in the firing line, despite never being asked their view on anything.