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“It is in nobody’s interest to use public monies in this way, so I would want NHS Shetland to be reviewing the scale of these pay outs and learn any lessons as to why this money has been spent in this way. People need to receive the treatment they require.”

 

So, the NHS has had to pay various people money in compensation for various things.. Fair enough but, is Tavish seriously suggesting that the compensation paid is too high ?

 

Thankfully, I have never been in a position where I felt the need to sue NHS for anything but, I would like to think that those who are would get a fair and equitable settlement.

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Thankfully, I have never been in a position where I felt the need to sue NHS for anything but, I would like to think that those who are would get a fair and equitable settlement.

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

In your dreams, in your dreams.

 

The statutes in place which have to be met as 'proof' of 'fault' are so heavily loaded in favour of the NHS that they'd have to make a cock up of the magnitude of giving you a vasectomy when they were supposed to give to a tonsillectomy for you to get anything out of them.

 

Been there (just not with a vasectomy or tonsillectomy I hasten to add), done that, have the T Shirt, and have lived? with the damage for over 1/4 century, and still they're in denial.

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So, the NHS has had to pay various people money in compensation for various things.. Fair enough but, is Tavish seriously suggesting that the compensation paid is too high ?

 

I think he's suggesting that the mistakes could be prevented in the first instance, rather than the payouts reduced. But there's not much context to the story, i.e. number of patients affected against the figure would have been useful.

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Give the extremely high standards of reporting around here :ponders: , it is possible that Tavish has been misquoted but. reading the article it said "eight claims had been settled.." (over the last few years). 

 

Possibly, there are others that are still outstanding/not proven.  Who knows and, if they were not all "clinical", eight out of how many hundreds/thousands is not too bad(?) is it ?

 

Maybe the underlying issue is that far to many people expect "perfection" when it just isn't possible.

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^ There may well be over-inflated expectations from healtcare by some, but from personal experience there's faults in all quarters.

 

Shetland is a relatively small NHS operation where many senior(ish) disciplines are 'run' by one or two individuals rather than a sizeable team, a situation which creates a lack of peer advice and scrutiny on working practices and decisions, and in worst cases allows those with high arrogance and excess belief in their own competence and abilities to get much further out of hand before others begin to notice red flags. It also allows them to 'bury' the mistakes of their shortcomings far more readily and for a much longer period.

 

There is also a steadily increasing sense from the outside looking in that the NHS in general and smaller operations such as Shetland in particular, are slaves to 'procedures' and red tape in general first and foremost, and to patient care a very poor second. Some procedures are necessary to ensure workability, but when a patient is denied treatment that multiple specialists agree should help them, but no one of the specialists is willing to take it on their head to prescribe it because 'its not really within my remit', procedures have become the patients enemy.

 

Then there's the old chestnut of always having severe problems recruiting staff to fill certain posts, and having to 'take what we can get' or have nobody - Usually such folk are either the least desirable to employ and have been passed over for positions elsewhere, or see Shetland as an opportune step for their own personal career ladder, will only stay the minimum time necessary before they have the opportunity to take the next step to where they want to go, and will only do the job here as well as they need to to keep it for as long as they need it.

 

Put them all together, and mistakes and shortcomings are inevitable. We're at the end of the line for everything, so can expect to get the lion's share of the dross, which is a shame given that there are also a lot of good people working for the NHS in Shetland, and a great deal of their good work is being cancelled out by the numpties in their midst.

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