Much-delayed inquiry into boy’s death

Robbie Powell 1990 Swansea death inquiry criticised

A leading Welsh Conservative says plans for an independent investigation into a 10-year-old boy's death 20 years ago do not go far enough.

This travesty could not happen in Canada!

Could it?

Organ donor registry choked by red tape

What, a surprise?

See the "Fair Notice" post as well.

We need an online organ donor registry?

Researchers discover how worms promote healing

Interesting CTV News article?

Hospital high death rates

Is anytning going to be done to make hospitals safer and better?

Consider checklists, maybe?

Probably not on a large scale.

Battle brews over access to hospital records

Some naively believe reasonable access is possible.

The tooth fairy exists?

It doesn't!

Boo Hoo

Checklists cut surgery deaths

Surprise - Surprise

Wide-Reaching Checklist Improves Surgery

Making a list and checking it twice -- before and after surgery -- appears to reduce complications, including deaths, researchers have found.

Police to investigate death of man who waited 34 hours in Winnipeg ER

Winnipeg police say they have launched an investigation to determine whether a criminal offence was committed in connection with the death of Brian Sinclair at a hospital emergency room.

Brian Sinclair waited 34 hours in the emergency room,

but died without getting treatment

Robbie’s Law

Robbie’s Law and the Need for a Statutory Duty of Candour - October 14th, 2010

The Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations, which came into force in April 2010, provide for a statutory duty on healthcare providers to report incidents which harm patients to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA).

AvMA’s report states that, “everyone needs to understand that it is simply unacceptable to allow dishonesty over medical accidents. Sending the message that cover ups may be tolerated (as the current arrangements do) can in no way support an open and fair culture.”

Legal Duty of Candour - 'Robbie's Law'

PROPOSAL FOR A

LEGAL DUTY OF CANDOUR IN HEALTHCARE

Self Regulation

Is this the result we should expect?

http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Arrogant_Worms:The_Prescription_Drug_Song

Preposterous, slanderous depiction of an honourable profession!

Does this article tend to vindicate the Arrogant Worms' lyrics?

Revealed: NHS fails to curb lethal painkiller errors

Exclusive: 1,300 dosage mistakes leave three dead as research finds patient safety directives not being met

Thursday 12 August 2010

see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Oh, isn't it remarkable at how confident we can be with the effectiveness of the self regulation that the medical profession has achieved world wide?

Are patients safer?

Patient group aims to lift veil on medical errors

Each year, medical errors kill almost 24,000 Canadians, yet many patients say they struggle getting hospital staff to admit the mistakes. That why they've formed a new group calling for that to change.

That's nearly one needless death every 20 minutes!


Patients for Patient Safety Canada




Patients for Patient Safety Canada Launches Nationally



An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002

That's nearly one needless death every 3 minutes!

DOCTORS ACCOUNTABLE‽ ! ?

Something to think about



COLLEGE QUIETLY DROPS INVESTIGATION
OF EX- CHIEF CORONER JAMES YOUNG
ON AGREEMENT HE WON'T RE-APPLY

Inquiry may be held into boy's death in 1990

An example of the swift response
to clear up ethical questions dealing with the
MEDICAL PROFESSIONS?

NHS blunder changed organ donors' wishes

Families allowed organs to be donated,
after being given wrong information
on what consent had been given

Makes one feel real comfortable with Ontario's,

Fair Notice

"An important change in how organ and tissue donation decisions are registered in Ontario.

Now, when you register or renew your health card at a ServiceOntario Office, you will be advised that only a “YES” to organ and tissue donation is being collected and stored in the OHIP database.",

doesn't it?


Organ transplants: Relative ethics
Examining the ethics of transplants
21 April 2010

Nurse is found guilty of misconduct

16 April 2009
A nurse who secretly filmed for a Panorama programme exposing neglect of elderly patients in a hospital has been struck off the register with immediate effect.

It sometimes takes a few moments for common sense to prevail?

12 October 2009
A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has won her battle to return to work.

22 March 2010
Nurse Margaret Haywood blew the whistle on shocking care of elderly patients in Sussex by filming undercover. She was struck off, but the high court reinstated her last month.

The sacred ethic of the health professions;
You don't blow the whistle on colleagues and they don't on you!,
RIGHT?

Panel to probe Windsor hospitals

I don't find any comfort in this exercise!
I remember the expressions
Self regulation
Self serving

Are Windsor Hospitals really a perceived aberration, in that they perform less properly than other hospitals in other centers?

Grieving Windsor family seeks answers


Rebecca Walberg on Brian Sinclair's
death in the ER and a
Manitoba Health cover-up
S.O.P.
Medical Profession's
Standard Operating Procedures

Mistaken mastectomy probe

Pathologist suspended while tests reviewed


I wonder if the speed at which recommended safety procedures are being implemented are a good indication of the value that the medical profession's colleges et all places on their patients' well being?

How long have the recommendations for Surgical Checklists been ignored or ridiculed?

Province probes mistaken surgeries
The Ontario government has launched an external review into a number of botched medical procedures

This should give us as much comfort as
"Bill 31, Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004".
We need patient protection.



Fears grip Windsor
in wake of medical mistakes
Is the current system, in practical terms,
self regulating or self serving?

If there is any reason for doubt,
is that the reason we now have fear?

LIVES AT RISK!

NHS hospitals ignore patient safety orders
Watchdog says failure by trusts to comply with alerts is 'unacceptable'

Common sense WHO guidelines are disregarded worldwide?!‽ millspeninsula ex

Surgical checklist

"A simple safety check during major operations could prevent millions of people around the world from suffering surgical complications and save the lives of thousands of patients, according to a new study published today."

WHO surgical safety checklist
and implementation manual
click here

Why has the Medical "Profession" apparently been so determined not to adapt a time proven procedure that has been perfected by real "professionals" in another public service, AIRCREW, in the military and airline passenger and air freight industry. Maybe, it might be that an error in one profession, normally only harms the recipient of the service, while in the other, both the recipient and the service provider are at risk when errors occur?


Look at this previous observation!


The lessons pilots can teach surgeons
Debrief sessions, like those carried out by pilots, could reduce surgery errors
24 January 2009

A man waited 34 hours in the emergency room, but died without getting treatment

Judge recommends more legal funding
for family of Brian Sinclair in inquest



First Nations demand health-care inquiry

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