‘A culture of cover-up and rivalry’

Health Minister Anne Pryke at yesterday’s press conference with Health acting chief executive Richard Jouault (standing) and Verita’s Julian Woolfson, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, Ed Marsden and Derek Mechen Picture: TONY PIKE (00882486)

A FEAR of speaking out, a culture of cover-ups and a lack of common purpose between doctors and civil servants have all been alleged in the damning Health report.
Further claims that too many patients are being referred to the Hospital because GPs make money from referrals, and that consultants have an ‘unhelpful rivalry’ over doing private work have also been made.
During their investigations into the death of former staff nurse Elizabeth Rourke, independent consultants Verita found that many of the people they interviewed made serious allegations about how the Hospital and Health Department were being run.
Verita felt that some of the claims were so serious that they compiled a secondary report highlighting some of the most serious allegations and recommended that further investigations be launched.(from JEP)

Oh Dear,

Lets have a look at the above statement posted by GD calmly.

While yes it is from the JEP it is fairly straightforward and looks to be a true reflection as to what goes on or went on at the Hospital.

The first thing that strikes me is the line.

people they interviewed made serious allegations about how the Hospital and Health Department were being run.

This would suggest health professionals making allegations, not the man in the street.
So what else has happened that is off the radar both medically and financially unknown to the public and politicians? We now know the management wasted half a million on unneeded flue vaccine.

What is also worrying is that there is a lack of common purpose. I have would suggest that most of the front line Doctors nurses try to do an excellent job otherwise why do the years of specialist training?

This leaves the lack of common purpose in the laps of civil servants. Well if the common purpose is to care for the needs of the sick and vulnerable what does the lack of common purpose mean, the opposite? As good and well meaning a person as Anne Pryke is, she needs to resign and leave a place for someone with enough presence and fortitude to restructure the administration at the General, the Verita report is too damming.

It does seem strange that short comings, lack of communication etc etc, by executive management was partly to blame for an unnecessary sad death. Top managers ( non removed ) all work on, happily being paid (I read) around £400 a day.

Lets all remember this is not about fixing roads or lighting the streets this is literally a life and death corporation that we should be proud of and feel one hundred per cent confident in.

English MPs and a peer are having criminal charges instigated for fiddling their expenses with maximum sentence being seven years jail.

Is it not about time we dispensed with the Jersey Way, and got real?

Boatyboy.