One of the best things about being a hospital porter is that
you know you're one of the hospital good guys. Now, I am very well aware that we're
definitely not perfect, for example: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2021/05/paul-farrell-jailed.html;
but generally speaking we're lilywhites compared to the civilian professions.
Very often when some act of scumbaggery occurs in a hospital, fingers
instinctively point at the porters, but this is a myth that is losing
credibility with each turning of the news cycle. Catherine Hudson was a nurse
at the Blackpool Victoria
Hospital and she has just been
sentenced to seven years in prison for gross malpractice. Her accomplice,
Charlotte Wilmot, has been described as a "healthcare worker" which
probably means a nursing auxiliary or HCA; and she has got three years. The two
served on a stroke unit and during nightshifts gave their patients extra
sedation to keep them quiet in order to make the nurses' jobs easier. Hudson
and Wilmot made spiteful jokes to each other on Whatsapp. I don't think that
alone is necessarily insidious, as I've said before, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2020/05/sick-hospital-video.html;
but in this case it does seem to have served as incitement to genuine malice. Source:
https://news.sky.com/story/nurse-and-healthcare-worker-jailed-after-patients-sedated-for-easy-shift-13029474.
This "culture of abuse" went on for at least a year. It ended when a
student nurse, known only as "Nurse A" for legal reasons, blew the
whistle. She had been doing a stint on the hospital wards and discovered Hudson
and Wilmot's conspiracy. Management at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust made a public statement praising the decency and courage of
Nurse A... but in private I am sure they are cursing her name. I suspect once
she qualifies she will be blacklisted and find a lot of career obstacles
mysteriously appearing in her path. I am sure this "culture of abuse"
is everywhere, and management know it and look the other way. Occasionally it
pops up, like in this case and the terrible one in the background link below;
but the only thing managers lament is the scandal it causes. It's the law of
the jungle on those wards and the patients are the prey.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/12/nhs-nurses-destroy-patients-doll.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/12/nhs-nurses-destroy-patients-doll.html.
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