The revelations delivered yesterday in the report into the Mid-Staffs NHS debacle left me stunned. I knew from reading many articles about this in the past that it would be bad, but this was just unbelievable.
What to do next? I am absolutely sure that the general public want someone to be held to account for this mess and despite the description of this disaster being revealed as a ‘Total Systems Failure’; these ‘Systems’ were put in place by Humans ranging from the then Government setting policy to the various levels of management in the NHS implementing these ‘Systems’.
For me, I would say that there has been a total ‘corruption of position’ within senior management associated with the Mid-Staffs crisis.
As these ‘Systems’ were run and managed by Humans, does it not show that either the wrong people were employed – though I guess that ‘must have an uncaring attitude to patients’ would not have appeared on any job description, or that the people that were employed got so involved in their part of running the ‘System’ that they became corrupted by their own position within the ‘System’ unable or unwilling to do anything against the ‘System’.
What is staggering to me is that some of the people involved in the Mid-Staff crisis seem to have been championed by others within the ‘System’ and moved on to higher level management jobs within the NHS. Did they then let out a sigh of relief or simply carry that corrupted position with them to their new ‘slot’ within the ‘System’? We may never really know, of course that is until the next enquiry exposes yet more ‘Systems’ failures.
It is sad that today no one seems to have the backbone to admit that they have done wrong, we still seem to ‘pay-off’ the failures who are then free to take up other positions within the same organisation to possibly continue their ‘corruption of yet another position’
When will we learn our lessons?
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