Muhammad Haque updating his diagnosis of a sick NHS bureaucracy in London! 25 years on about recruitment of nursing staff...

From the web site of the NURSING TIMES [www.nursingtimes.net]

Muhammad Haque | 25-Jan-2011 10:53 am

I quote NURSING TIMES online

“Director of workforce Helen Bullers said perceived cultural problems about prayer times and modesty of dress had contributed to this.” [unquote]


What evidence has Helen Bullers based your reported assertion on?
More than 25 years ago, doing my democratic audit job as the community-elected representative for the inner London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the then Inner London Education Authority [ILEA] I met a predecessor in bureaucracy of Helen Bullers as based at the Royal London Hospital.
That was a meeting that had, interestingly, resulted from a letter I had published in a Nursing magazine.
The subject matter was the state of nursing in the NHS generally and the failure of the NHS bureaucracies to serve the needs of ALL patients as illustrated by the dismal experience of so many in the areas covered by the inner cities Hospitals. I argued then as I have been arguing for the 25 years that have followed my action that the most appropriate criteria for recruiting nursing and other health service staff must be based on and derived from the needs of the population that is served by a Hospital or by an NHS service.
The claim you attribute to “Director of workforce Helen Bullers” if truthful is staggering and lethally inconsistent with the universal entitlements of patents to the due nursing and health care.
I would suggest that that attitude would also be a likely ground for more than one civil law actions against any NHS or health service manager or executive. Both UK domestic statutes and international laws to which the UK is a signatory are prima facie violated in the assertion that you have attributed to Helen Bullers.

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