Some men are simply meant to be boars who wallow in the same cesspit as NHS/GMC Management.
Jo Stephenson of course missed out the real campaigners against iwantgreatcare.org - Jobbing Doctor and Witchdoctor who have both done a sterling job in keeping the issue alive [loud clap].
I had to howl with laughter at Neil Bacon
"I never read them," declares Neil Bacon. "They are just the unedited and ill-informed views of individuals who like the sound of their own voices."
Dr Bacon has himself been a target of bloggers' ire, after setting up the website I Want Great Care, which allows patients to rate and review doctors like a book on Amazon. The patient critiques are anonymous but Dr Bacon maintains there is a difference in that the site aims to gather the views of lots of people rather than provide a platform for a lone critic or admirer.
He believes managers can get a lot out of online communication - including blogs - but only if it is two-way. Editing negative comments or leaving them out defeats the purpose, he says"
Ah but those are voices that are read, understood and analysed :). I also love these listings. We won't mention the visits from iwantgreatcare.org on our websites then Neil :). Neil though ought to learn about what a blog is. Just for him, here is a definition
As he has a personality of a large boar, I have no doubts that all women would fall asleep if Neil started to write a blog. He has as much charisma as a floating amoeba. In addition, his money management skills need some fine tuning. A 2 year old could do better.
I suppose Bacon does not like the sound of his own voice when he has crowed in all the newspapers and the current journal. I shall leave both Witchdoctor and JD to analyse whether they feel Mr Bacon's views are unedited and ill informed. Mr Bacon clearly lives in his own ivory tower. He also lacks insight. He also tells little white fibs hoping the world won't notice.
Jobbing Doctor has been seeing the similarities between Neil and the live slugs he finds in his garden. We therefore assume JD dislikes this man.
Of course, Neil fails to comprehend the influence of bloggers. Clear Blogging outlines it. Harnessing collective power can also change the world. It is therefore clear that our so called internet enterpreneur is now behind the times. Perhaps Neil now requires his pipe and slipper s. He may wish to settle down to being a has-been. He also needs to realise that his website is a catastrophic failure. Is there any treatment for delusions of grandeur?
This amused me from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals.
John Rostill, chief executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust, says he started blogging to try to engage more with staff.
"I didn't do it to enter a competition and wouldn't set out to make it funny," he says. "The blog isn't for my benefit - it's not to vent my frustration but to educate and inform others and let them know what we're doing."
Would he be worried if he found out a member of trust staff was blogging about work? "It wouldn't worry me at all as long as there was no breach of confidentiality," he says. What if he featured in a blog? Mr Rostill pauses. "I say I wouldn't mind but it depends what they wrote. It wouldn't be the first time that people have written about me and I might not approve, but then we didn't come into this job to be popular.
"If it generated a bit of healthy discussion, I'd encourage it."
Of course, it is a well known fact that Worcestershire NHS Trust fired me as soon as they found out I had been blogging. Here is what Worcestershire NHS Trust had to say.
"Worcestershire NHS confirmed that Dr Pal left after it became aware of the GMC's investigation, but refused to comment further, citing confidentiality"
Having told the Register that I had " left", it was interesting that they failed to tell the world that they had actually fired me. There are two pieces of evidence showing this, an email from the Human Resources Department and the confirmation from the locum agency citing " You were fired". The final piece of evidence was the confirmation from the agency to the GMC that I had been fired as soon as they were informed that I had been blogging and this was a matter of GMC investigation. The complaint was thrown out on its proverbial legs. WD and JD will be amused to learn that the decision in the GMC complaint could not differentiate between the blog and the website :) and got the URLs confused. What was it I said about amoebas and the GMC?
Worcestershire NHS Trust has still never apologised despite the fact they fired me unnecessarily. It was rather expected of those who really lack imagination, those who run a service that doesn't work. I did of course whistleblow on them once and I shall do so again. It is just a matter of time isn't it Dr Monterio. They can be found on their daily guilt slinking visits to the nhsexposedblog.blogspot.com.
The forthcoming judicial review will be interesting because Worcestershire NHS Trust will be starring as the premier Trust, one of the first to fire a blogger for her controversial views. Mr Rosthill is not quite as fair as he would like to appear.
I love this warning from management :).
"Blogs are a good way of communicating informally but anyone entering the blogosphere should know where they stand when it comes to the law, says NHS Employers joint acting director Sian Thomas. "Although relatively new, blogs are covered by existing legislation and anyone blogging needs to be sure anything published conforms to UK legislation and their own contract of employment," she says.
Employers should have well-publicised policies covering the use of email and websites at work. Trusts should also have whistleblowing policies for employees. "Publishing inappropriate material in a blog is usually unacceptable," says Ms Thomas. Most NHS staff have confidentiality clauses in their contract which, if breached, may lead to disciplinary procedures.
"Anything published on the internet is also subject to libel laws," she adds"
Yes, that nice veiled threat to all doctors in the UK.! Well, there are ways of blogging completely anonymously and we know how :) :)>. In any case, if doctors can't blog, we can do it for them :). For avoidance of doubt, every NHS Trust, every NHS manager and every defence union failed to sue for libel on msbp.com. They also failed to bring the website down. Moreover they could do nothing due to the anonymity of the posters there. Now, if we apply the same principle to medical bloggers - no one is going to find them [ not if we help them anyway]. Let that be a message to the NHS Trusts/Management and the stasi at the General Medical Council. Free speech is here to rule. While there is tyranny within the NHS, there will be free speech through the blogspace. In my view, the NHS, the defence unions and the regulatory bodies have had too much control for too many years. It is now time for some accountability.
North Staffordshire NHS Trust is free to sue me at any time and any day and in any court. I am very happy to meet their hopeless lawyers affectionately termed Mills and Boon [ Mills and Reeve] :) :). Oh, I am quaking in my boots :) [ thigh length leather ones of course]! Normally, the lawyers turn up with law books and I turn up with the evidence :)>
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