Steve Bolsin Should Come HomeSteve Bolsin left the United Kingdom for Australia. No one campaigned for his return. Steve is a successful doctor in Australia but England is his country. He was forced to leave because England did not fight to keep him. Yet, he was the bravest man of them all and the only whistleblower to have achieved an inquiry into his concerns. As Steve himself points out, the subject matter was children and people have a soft spot for kids. Other whistleblowers aren't so fortunate and neither do they have subjects that tug at the heart strings of the public. The Bristol Inquiry still remains the leading light in whistleblowing. It made a number of recommendations that the National Health Service subsequently ignored. Now we see the cost of this in the high death rate in various NHS hospitals.
Many ask me why I never left for Australia. The answer is this - I am British. I was born in the United Kingdom and this is my home. I have everything I love in the UK and nothing - not even the medical establishment is going to chase me away. I also believe that I should never set the precedent that every whistleblower's fate should be in Australia. This is why it is important for me to develop an existence and acceptability within the UK - as a NHS Whistleblower. As I see it, it is also my job to assist those who require help in many ways to improve the healthcare in the National Health Service. It is impossible to effect improvement singlehandedly therefore my own principles of healthcare improvement is to create a information well that many can find useful in their own challenges of the NHS and other authorities.
I am no diva hence I often shun the media because these issues of patient safety are not about me but about patients. It is therefore the patients and their relatives that require the spotlight of publicity. I am also not Margaret Haywood or anyone else - in that I actually dislike talking about myself as a "case". I do though find my discoveries of the failing system to be worthy of exposure. This is because the NHS currently fails the vulnerable in many ways. We live in a first world country with a third world service. As I see it, it should be the job of every doctor to take part in improving the system they work in. I though understand that the General Medical Council has used its silencer on them. And that is a very sad fact of life - that the doctors in the UK are not free to challenge the status quo to effect improvement in this system. Then I know those that care about the system do whatever they can above and beyond the call of duty. Just that their patients don't understand the number of hoops they have to jump to ensure their patients have basic healthcare.
Good doctors and even whistleblowers are all taken for granted. Few fight for them or ensure they are protected. The public is a great demander for justice for themselves but few will protect those doctors who seek to protect them. This is why Steve isn't back in the United Kingdom - because no one took the time to fight for him. Now everyone talks about him as the whistleblower who had to leave for Australia - but few engage in a campaign to bring him back home. Few forget that Steve's talents and influence could have radically changed the way medicine works in the United Kingdom. He could certainly do a much better job than Liam Donaldson. Liam though is getting fat. He is fat man because he is fed too much crap from the government. Liam's brain runs on one brain cell and that is being quite generous. As Chief Medical Officer, he should be responsible for the high death rates in this country and immediately referred to the General Medical Council. He has clearly been unable to improve matters and given his negligence in the mess created by the MMC [ Modernising Medical Careers], I am surprised he hasn't been ousted from his job. Then the UK must be the only place in the world where you can be negligent as a doctor but never held accountable because the system protects you. As I said, Steve Bolsin needs to return back to a position in the Department of Health - where he can effect and overhaul the entire National Health Service so that it saves more patients than it kills.
Many ask me why I never left for Australia. The answer is this - I am British. I was born in the United Kingdom and this is my home. I have everything I love in the UK and nothing - not even the medical establishment is going to chase me away. I also believe that I should never set the precedent that every whistleblower's fate should be in Australia. This is why it is important for me to develop an existence and acceptability within the UK - as a NHS Whistleblower. As I see it, it is also my job to assist those who require help in many ways to improve the healthcare in the National Health Service. It is impossible to effect improvement singlehandedly therefore my own principles of healthcare improvement is to create a information well that many can find useful in their own challenges of the NHS and other authorities.
I am no diva hence I often shun the media because these issues of patient safety are not about me but about patients. It is therefore the patients and their relatives that require the spotlight of publicity. I am also not Margaret Haywood or anyone else - in that I actually dislike talking about myself as a "case". I do though find my discoveries of the failing system to be worthy of exposure. This is because the NHS currently fails the vulnerable in many ways. We live in a first world country with a third world service. As I see it, it should be the job of every doctor to take part in improving the system they work in. I though understand that the General Medical Council has used its silencer on them. And that is a very sad fact of life - that the doctors in the UK are not free to challenge the status quo to effect improvement in this system. Then I know those that care about the system do whatever they can above and beyond the call of duty. Just that their patients don't understand the number of hoops they have to jump to ensure their patients have basic healthcare.
Good doctors and even whistleblowers are all taken for granted. Few fight for them or ensure they are protected. The public is a great demander for justice for themselves but few will protect those doctors who seek to protect them. This is why Steve isn't back in the United Kingdom - because no one took the time to fight for him. Now everyone talks about him as the whistleblower who had to leave for Australia - but few engage in a campaign to bring him back home. Few forget that Steve's talents and influence could have radically changed the way medicine works in the United Kingdom. He could certainly do a much better job than Liam Donaldson. Liam though is getting fat. He is fat man because he is fed too much crap from the government. Liam's brain runs on one brain cell and that is being quite generous. As Chief Medical Officer, he should be responsible for the high death rates in this country and immediately referred to the General Medical Council. He has clearly been unable to improve matters and given his negligence in the mess created by the MMC [ Modernising Medical Careers], I am surprised he hasn't been ousted from his job. Then the UK must be the only place in the world where you can be negligent as a doctor but never held accountable because the system protects you. As I said, Steve Bolsin needs to return back to a position in the Department of Health - where he can effect and overhaul the entire National Health Service so that it saves more patients than it kills.
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The situation is likely to get worse not better in the coming months and years.
The more people are paid, the harder they defend their vested interests. Unless they are at the bottom end of the scale when they cannot afford the luxury of independent thought.
The present approach is to remove the middle class, from which reasoned arguments for moderate change emerge
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