Concealment of Death Rates to Obtain University Status

Not long ago Professor Gillian Needham was visitor to Keele University Medical School.

Lets get a few matters straight here, in 1998 a number of senior consultants including Professor Temple [ ex Dean of West Midlands Deanery] were making an application to ensure that North Staffordshire NHS Trust succeeded in being accepted as "University status". In 1998, all the applications were going through RE University status. The question we ask here is this, how many of the patient deaths did they cover up to reach this status? Which hospital which has a poor record of junior doctor supervision, a poor record of patient observation, a lack of equipment manages to get University status?

I know Professor Rod Griffiths in collusion with Professor Temple and the clinicians at North Staffordshire NHS Trust to ensure that I was effectively " put away" so their plans could come into fruition. Their plan was important. Their plan was to side line and discredit a whistleblower so they were able to successfully reach University status. This was a known issue. This is also the reason why every independent inquiry was shut down around Ward 87. Ironically, the doctor responsible for the mismanagement of Ward 87 - Monica Spitieri is probably teaching at the University :). Such is the justice meted out by North Staffordshire NHS Trust on those who walk on blindly while patients die.

This was an email I wrote to Gillian Needham about her "blind eyed" view to Keele University Medical School. We need to understand one issue here, multiple clinicians lied to the General Medical Council about Ward 87. They withheld the Dr Creamer report from the GMC. They told the GMC that "all had been corrected" and that the "problems were minor". Having done so, Keele University Medical School continues to exist starry eyed. North Staffordshire NHS Trust would never have obtained university status. They know it, we all know it.

With the new University status comes multimillion funds :).

People Involved.

1. Dr Colin Campbell [ Department of Paediatrics]
2. Dr John Green [ Department of Medicine]
3. Professor Elder [ Department of Surgery]
4. Professor Monica Spitieri [ Respiratory Medicine]
5. Professor John Temple
6. David Fillingham Chief Executive
7. Mills and Reeve Law Firm [ because their advice is often so awful - we call them Mills and Boon]
8. Professor Rod Griffiths.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rita Pal
To: Gillian Needham
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Prof Needham

Many thanks for that. Of course, the status of xxxxx isn't going to remain a secret forever. I believe we both know that.

Anyhow, I was more interested in your views of Keele Medical School

What do you know about the involvement of North Staffordshire NHS Trust in the creation of this medical school. Moreover, during its creation there were substantial problems at the Trust in 1998 onwards.

A March 2002 report by the Commission of Health Improvement of a Clinical Governance Review at North Staffordshire NHS Trust found serious shortcomings in the supervision of junior doctors,

"CHI was informed that junior doctors working in medicine were often inadequately supervised and often left alone on wards, particularly on the medical assessment unit (MAU). During an evening visit we found only two junior doctors covering MAU, which was full to capacity, with a further junior doctor covering MAU and emergency admissions; one junior doctor covered the medical wards and one covered medical outliers but these patients could be on wards on either site. CHI felt this situation posed a potential clinical risk to patients.”

3. The 2002 report went on to say, in Paragraph 5.78:

"There were a number of concerns raised regarding support and supervision for junior doctors working in medicine. We were told of a number of occasions when it was felt there was a lack of support both during the day and when problems arise whilst oncall. The Trust has acknowledged that medical staffing at all levels is under resourced in medicine".

Were these problems addressed during the involvement of North Staffordshire NHS Trust in the creation of Keele University Medical School.

Perhaps you would also be kind enough to outline the process/procedure whereby a hospital is accepted and given University status. I am unclear of this procedure.

Many thanks

Dr Rita Pal

NB You should reinstate xxxxx so that NHS Highland can get back to normal business. I don't think a principle is really worth causing the entire Trust and its staff to be undermined via the internet [ of course, the internet does make a difference - you simply have to observe the case of Prof David Southall to understand how much difference it makes].