Health secretary admits official failings over a number of medical treatment issues

[Sly Saint]

"
Jeremy Hunt, the health and social care secretary, has launched a nine-month review into how the NHS addresses concerns about medical treatments, including vaginal mesh devices.

Speaking in the House of Commons, he admitted the government had failed to respond adequately to a series of public health scandals caused by the side-effects of medical treatments, citing the surgical mesh scandal as a key example."

“Sometimes the reaction has felt overly focused on defending the status quo rather than addressing the needs of patients, and as a result patients and their families have spent too long feeling that they were not being listened to, making the agony of a complex medical situation even worse,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...review-into-handling-of-surgical-mesh-scandal

 

[Trish]

Now to convince him that the same applies to GET for ME...

 

[guest001]

I really feel the time HAS come to push for a Public Inquiry into PACE but with a wider scope to encompass the rest of the BPS bandwagon (which has zero evidence of its underlying premise) including the hideous and bogus concept of MUS. We have to shout from the rooftops that nothing short of a PI will do it now. With the emphasis on the Public.

 

[James]

No halt on using mesh and no halt on GET this kicks the can further up the road while the amount of harm done is debated.

 

[Alvin]

I really feel the time HAS come to push for a Public Inquiry into PACE but with a wider scope to encompass the rest of the BPS bandwagon (which has zero evidence of its underlying premise) including the hideous and bogus concept of MUS. We have to shout from the rooftops that nothing short of a PI will do it now. With the emphasis on the Public.

How do we make that happen?

 

[guest001]

How do we make that happen?

Well I felt this consolidating in my mind having watched Carol Monahagan. I think, if she is willing, a groundswell of impetus could grow around her as she would be a neutral centre who might happily work with many advocates/ groups/ charities whom with other initiatives might otherwise fail to align due to differences of opinion which are hard to break. That's where my mind is going.

 

[Alvin]

Well I felt this consolidating in my mind having watched Carol Monahagan. I think, if she is willing, a groundswell of impetus could grow around her as she would be a neutral centre who might happily work with many advocates/ groups/ charities whom with other initiatives might otherwise fail to align due to differences of opinion which are hard to break. That's where my mind is going.

cool

 

[guest001]

cool

Not saying it's going to happen..but it might be well worth considering properly? Strike whilst the iron is hot?

 

[Alvin]

Not saying it's going to happen..but it might be well worth considering properly? Strike whilst the iron is hot?

for sure