! Evidence of failures, negligence, abuse by local Councils, NHS Trusts in the CONTEXT of the CONDEM

England news! NHS Hospital starves patients to death!

1405 Hrs GMT today Tuesday 25 December 2012

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The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary on the Deadly Lies that the CONDEM Collusion is telling and the equally deadly silence by the so-called Opposition in the UK Parliament [1] 

All the attacks that local Councils like Tower Hamlets are mounting on the people under the excuse that the CONDEM COLLUSION is MAKING THE CUTS THAT ARE FORCING THE ATTACKS must be examined on the facts. 

The truth is that MANY of the abuses by the local NHS Trusts and by the local Councils are not new. Local Councils, like Tower Hamlets, have been abusing their ordinary powers and have been getting away with the abuses, misuses for years.

These abuses, failures, systemic and systematic acts of negligence have been going on for years. Even before the CONDEM Collusion was itself formed in May 2010. 

Even when G Brown was in occupation at No 10 Downing Street.

So my approach is evidential:

Take the evidence and then examine it and then make the conclusion. 

No automatic assumption for justifying the blaming of just the CONDEM Collusion. This of course does not mean excusing the CONDEM. What it means is that LOCAL Councils DO HAVE to explain why they say that THEIR failures too are excusable by citing the POLICY of CONDEM cuts.

Does the evidence support such excuses? 

[To be continued]

The item below has been retrieved from the web site of the Morning Start at 1338 Hrs GMT today Tuesday 25 December 2012

Horrific NHS trust 'laden with PFI debt'

Sunday 23 December 2012

by Will Stone Health & Social Affairs Reporter 

A nightmare NHS trust in charge of a hospital where a man starved to death is buckling under the strain of PFI debt, campaigners said today.

Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospital Trust is set to say sorry to the families of 38 people subjected to "appalling" treatment.

In one case an 84-year-old man starved to death at Redditch's Alexandra Hospital in 2009, while an elderly woman died after going unwashed for 11 weeks.

Lawyers Leigh Day & Co sued the trust 15 months ago on behalf of badly treated patients after the scandal was exposed by the Care Quality Commission health watchdog.

The trust's bosses have agreed to apologise but haven't admitted that it is liable for the shocking situations.

It is also paying out £410,000 to the families.

"Vulnerable and elderly patients were left starving and thirsty, with drinks left out of reach, buzzers ignored and people not being taken to the toilet and instead left to sit in their own faeces by the very people meant to be caring for them," said lawyer Emma Jones.

"There have been financial settlements, but what the families have always wanted all along is an apology. Some have been waiting years."

The letters are expected to be sent in January, she said.

All of the incidents took place between 2002 and 2011, with 35 at the Alexandra Hospital and three at Worcestershire Royal.

Health Emergency information director John Lister said: "The trust is laden with PFI debt.

"Such financial problems would have an enormous impact on staff numbers and the quality of care it delivers," he said.

"There's no excuse for individual failings in care but what must not happen in the wake of this is the scapegoat of a handful of nurses while the systematic failings of management are ignored."

Last September the Morning Star reported that the trust was one of 22 that could have its finances wrecked by PFI debt and government cuts.