joce darch

Just a teacher. Views are my own etc .

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS DESTROYED THE WOMAN WHO CAUGHT ITS DOCTORS STEALING FROM IT

Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx gave 30 years of spotless service to the @NHS. Not one disciplinary mark. Not one complaint. She was the budget holder for radiology at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, which means she could see exactly where the money was going.

What she saw was two consultant radiologists billing the NHS for shifts they were spending at a private hospital down the road. The Trust lost £250,000 of public money through those arrangements.

She reported it to her line manager. Her medical director. HR. Counter Fraud. The Department of Health. The Treasury. Number 10.

She had a paper trail so airtight that @ITV undercover surveillance later caught the same consultants still absent during paid hours, and caught Miranda Harvie and Akkib Rafique taking direct cash payments from patients for private ultrasounds inside the NHS building, money going straight into their own account.

So what did the Trust do with this documented, camera-confirmed, publicly broadcast fraud?

They sacked her. On fabricated counter-allegations from a subordinate she had herself reported for breaching patient safety. The man who filed those allegations later sent an email signed off with "0800-F***-YOU-B****." He received a Top Mentor award from the Trust that same year.

Sharmila won the Interim Relief Hearing. She won the internal appeal. The judge asked the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no and refused to let her return. She was blacklisted. Job offers were withdrawn the moment employers discovered who she was. She settled out of court in 2012 with two years pay, out of which she had to pay £77,500 in legal fees alone. 38 Degrees38 Degrees

In July 2013, she was diagnosed with breast and lung cancer. Multiple consultants believe this is a direct result of the sustained stress of her treatment as a whistleblower.

The consultants she reported kept their jobs.

George Osborne said he could not get involved. Andrew Lansley said he could not get involved. David Cameron said he could not get involved. Every single official body, every single minister, every single department looked at a proven, camera-documented NHS fraud case and decided it was an employment matter.

Read Sharmila's full case: sharmilachowdhury com

Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @DailyMail | @Independent | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @guardian | @thetimes | @DailyMirror | @Channel4News | @ITV

[joce darch @darchjoce]

@KBGreyhoundlady @UKHSA I completely agree I’m also 69 and look after my grandsons who put me in contact with all sorts of viruses I need to protection now! Take up for these programs are always so low why don’t they just let everybody over 65 have it now?!? It’s only effecting small numbers of people

[joce darch @darchjoce]

@anthonyetjones @UKHSA Only people with a brain believe this agency!

[joce darch @darchjoce]

@parthaskar @kamleshkhunti @DrSdeG @GoggleDocs @AbbieSBrooks @drgandalf52 @MFAminGP @BenAllenGP @scelee1 @DSNforumUK @WeNurses @DrSelvarajah @pcdosociety I know I’m not a primary care colleague but if it’s too time consuming for a gp why not make the resources available at reception.Everyone managed Covid testing during the pandemic by following a YouTube clip, surely that would provide the cover for missed diagnosis?

[joce darch @darchjoce]

@theAliceRoberts But Japan had no lock downs other than occasionally advising their citizens to stay at home at weekends which people obeyed. Presumably the success of this strategy was due to the Japanese population’s ability to follow the rules (unlike in the UK)

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

The NHS is in some big time trouble now.

Not sure folks realise how big a deal the tariffs and raising NICE threshold is for budgets.

And no, you can't blame the Resident Doctors for that.

#JustSaying

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Boris Johnson showered honours, jobs, gongs and hope of gongs upon his craven, corrupt gang in the media and they will support him as he is criticised in the Covid inquiry… and… in turn… he will support them as they plot against the BBC. He is right now. It stinks. But we can see it for what it is.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

That’s okay, he took a nap earlier

[joce darch @darchjoce]

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[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Thoughts from the US

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Project Blue November @PBlueNovember]

Diabetic MP’s bid to ensure her condition is not included as cause for assisted death in Canada https://t.co/4rsVFApvHH

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

I could talk to you all about what #T1Diabetes is all about

Or you could have a listen to this eloquent piece from @Jazzsethi95

Do have a listen 💙

#gbdoc #dedoc

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

A depiction of what #T1Diabetes is all about …

Most wonderful via @BT1DUK

Poignant and also why we keep working to improve lives for those who have this unforgiving, unremitting and relentless ‘condition’

Let’s keep at it amigos 💙

[Barbra Streisand @BarbraStreisand]

Unfortunately the media barely covered the significant accomplishments of the Biden Administration and long term investment in our infrastructure and economy. Like those of the New Deal, some will be noticed later.  No doubt Trump will take credit for these just as Republicans in Congress did for improvement programs they voted against. Hypocrisy.

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Twitter, I’m losing followers hand over fist. Still just about hanging on in here - please help me find my old followers - if they’re still here - if you can, by RTing.

[joce darch @darchjoce]

@DomDoodle @bbclaurak You’re

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a shocking moment, Donald Trump just announced that he is going to adopt Project 2025’s policy to fire civil servants and hire political staff loyal only to Trump. Retweet to make sure all Americans are aware of Trump’s devious plans.

[joce darch @darchjoce]

@Gastrografin1 You’re

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

I don’t speak of this often but listening to Nigel Farage in tonight’s debate I must.

My dad was an immigrant. From the moment he arrived in this country he worked hard every day in labouring jobs. My most vivid recollection is of his tired & weary eyes and oil stained overalls when he came home after a 12 hour factory shift. Even then he was able to raise a smile for us. He was kind & gentle & loved my mum with passion. He raised a family of 4 & instilled in each of us a fierce sense of right & wrong & love of country. His proudest day was when he became a British citizen. I recall him with love & affection & pride & carry the lessons he taught me in my heart every day. If it were not for my dad I would not be a lawyer today & in his memory I work hard everyday to make a difference for as many as I can. Immigration is a beautiful thing & don’t let charlatans like Farage tell you otherwise ❤️