Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Oxford Grooming Gang

 
This article is partly a follow-on to this one: http://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2020/11/gosh-porter-admits-child-abuse.html. The details of the "grooming gang" scandal are slowly coming out bit by bit. The Home Office has just released a major report. The true scale, horror and longevity of this syndrome of crimes are almost too terrible to describe. I will not even post links to news stories about it. One of the branches of this conspiracy of evil was in Oxford. It was not only an act of child abuse and sexual violence; it was an outburst of racial hatred and religious supremacy. Some of the victims were black, Hindu or Sikh, but the vast majority were white. What makes it all the more galling is that the authorities whose duty it was to protect these young girls tacitly collaborated with it simply because they couldn't endure being called "racists!" What I personally find very difficult to deal with is that some of the twenty-two men were hospital porters. I served alongside them as a brother porter. I will not name them. Like Paul Farrell, they are no longer hospital porters and I reject and despise them forever.

Saturday, 28 November 2020

GOSH Porter admits Child Abuse

 
The hospital portering service has done so many wonderful things. We have changed the world! See here for details: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2011/07/hospital-porters-who-changed-world.html. However, we are not a separate species. We are human beings in uniform. There are evil people in the Hospital Portering Service, terribly destructive people; people I believe are demonically possessed. I've known one or two... Another is, of course, Jimmy Savile, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/02/jimmy-savile-nhs-knew.html. One such person has just brought shame on the Hospital Portering Service. Paul Farrell was a porter at the world famous Great Ormond Street Hospital, a dedicated children's hospital in London that has cared for the youngest members of society since 1852. He pleaded guilty to fifty-eight sexual offences against children carried out between 1985 and 2020. One of his victims is now aged forty-three. This was a multi-generational reign of terror. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57229868. The sad and frustrating thing is that the civilian staff at GOSH will henceforth inevitably regard Farrell's crimes as a part of something related to the nature of all porters and/or hospital portering in general. The same is never the case when it comes to one of their own. Hospital civilians who commit crimes, even the worst crimes of all, are shrugged off as "a few bad apples!"; for example see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/05/killer-nurses.html. It's a horrific thing when young people enter hospital for help and healing, and only suffer exploitation and abuse. I said a long time ago: "once a hospital porter, always a hospital porter". In the case of Mr Farrell I make an exception. Like Jimmy Savile, he is no longer one of us.

Tuesday, 13 October 2020

HP's NDE

 
24 Hours in A&E is a long running hospital documentary on Channel 4. In their recent series they featured a porter called Jeremain. Jeremain serves at Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, London and the programme follows him on a few jobs which include "POV" shots where the camera shows us what he would see as he manoeuvres patient transport vehicles along the corridors. He's a cheerful kind of porter who sings to himself while he works. He originally comes from the Cayman Islands and in his youth was very keen on fast cars. He once drove a sports car round a corner at ninety miles per hour... something you could never do with a patient trolley; and the car left the road and overturned. In that terrible moment, Jeremain thought he was about to die. Then he saw a big white light shaped like a triangle. He felt that it was God intervening to save him, telling him that it was too soon for him to die and that God had made divine plans for what Jeremain had to do with his life. Based on the duty Jeremain is performing now, I cannot disagree. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbU2sbfeDE. An increasing number of people have been reporting experiences similar to that of MEP&DBP Jeremain. Most of these are in hospital and the reason they have become more common is medical technology. Before modern resuscitation techniques, once a patient's heart stopped they were generally declared dead straight away. Today there are ways of restarting their heart which are sometimes successful, allowing for the first time in history, people to continue their lives able to describe the experience of beginning to die. Their stories are incredible. They talk about visiting a heavenly realm and meeting with God. Sometimes dead friends and relatives commune with them. Occasionally this happens outside hospital with people who are seriously hurt, but not at immediately death's door, like MEP&DBP Jeremain. I'm glad he managed to be featured in this series and tell his story. It is good to see hospital portering portrayed respectfully by the media.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-from-dead.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/10/proof-of-life-after-death.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/11/consciousness-beyond-individual.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2008/11/near-death-experience-proved-true.html.

Monday, 31 August 2020

COVID 19 Whistleblower

A video has been currently circulating produced by a healthworker called Louise Hampton. She is employed by a contractor called Care UK and reports that her hospital was very quiet during the COVID 19 pandemic. This tallies with what I myself have heard from insiders I am still in touch with. She was awarded a certificate of merit for being part of the coronavirus response team, but she has returned it, calling it "a certificate of bollocks!" Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KWfuhe5YhY. This was a brave thing to do because, as I know only too well, the NHS is merciless towards whistleblowers; see the background links below. Predictably, her Trust and contractor authorities have retaliated with typical bureaucratic ferocity. They have placed Ms Hampton under an investigation which is eerily similar to my own discharge from the NHS, see: http://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2013/01/one-year-on.html. The BBC have now got on the case and their own reaction has been equally unsurprising. They have published an article written by somebody called Shayan Sardarizadeh from the BBC's "Anti-disinformation unit". Talk about an Orwellian name! The article is as biased, deceptive and derogatory as the BBC's typical output. Care UK issued a statement: "We are aware of this video, which we consider to be materially inaccurate in a number of ways, and can confirm that a member of staff is subject to investigation. We expect all our colleagues and services to support the work of the NHS in giving the public the right information and support during the pandemic." The article then leans on the fact that Ms Hampton is a QAnon supporter. They call QAnon "...an unfounded rightwing conspiracy theory that says President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satanic paedophiles in government, business and the media known as the 'Deep State' or 'Cabal'... (They believe) prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed." The Guardian has recently called QAnon "anti-Semitic"... Of course they have! Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-53948820. I salute my civilian sister for her courage and feel loathing for the management who are persecuting her for her beliefs. I know her career is now in jeopardy and I wish her all the best.

Friday, 21 August 2020

The All New Gas Spanner Show

There will shortly be a new programme series beginning on HPANWO Radio. This programme will be called The Gas Spanner and will become the official radio show of the HPWA. It will join the HPANWO Radio programmes list along with The HPANWO Show, Third Rail Radio and The Cry Freedom Show with Lisa. I hope it will become part of the "newspaper of record" for the Hospital Portering Service along with the HPWA and, more obliquely, HPANWO in general. The Gas Spanner will be specifically directed to cover the theme of hospital portering and associated subjects. I know that the prime contributor will always be myself, but I don't intend it to be purely a solo series. If I can bring on guests I will; I'm thinking specifically of MEP&DBP (ret) Trevor Murray who co-hosts Third Rail Radio with me. I don't expect serving hospital porters or NHS civilians to take the risk of being on the show. I'm well aware that being featured anywhere with me could be the kiss of death to somebody's career; but I will never include anybody unless I can totally safeguard their professional life. I am going to start design work on The Gas Spanner and will produce the pilot show as soon as possible.

Friday, 7 August 2020

RoboPorter!

This news video has appeared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4G6QcrvWY. It has a lot to say about the general issue of automation, which I will not detail here because I do so in this episode of Third Rail Radio, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2020/08/third-rail-radio-programme-89.html. It starts with the story of "Maxi", a robot in a hospital that performs many of the tasks that are normally the duty of the hospital portering services, such as delivering laboratory specimens, linen and medications. It is the porters' job, not the nurses' as the clip claims. The portering job involves logistics, the movement of anything from anywhere to anywhere. It is something that probably could easily be automated, by the technology of the past, let alone today. So does this mean "RoboPorter" is here to stay? No. Although it is possible, and indeed feasible, that non-patient contact duties could be done by machines, what about the patient contact work? The role of a hospital porter is not just to transport patients, but to embody the human factor. Hospital patients are very often frightened, upset, in pain, angry and vulnerable. Having a human being at the controls of your bed or wheelchair is a very important part of relieving those negative feelings; and therefore the healing process. The word "porter" originates from the Latin portare, meaning "to carry", but the hospital porter acts and counsellor and comforter as well as carrier. Many time, patients will actually confide in a porter more than they will with somebody directly providing clinical interventions. The detachment of the porters' position can allow the patient an intimacy with them that is difficult with somebody who is injecting or stitching them. I heard some of the most incredible stories imaginable from the patients I served during my twenty-three years in hospital portering. How could that necessary element of therapy be reduced to a faceless, soulless automaton attached by a metal hook to the back of your trolley or wheelchair? Therefore I doubt if patient transport will be automated in the foreseeable future. It won't be unless human beings themselves can stripped of their humanity... You have twenty seconds to comply!

Monday, 1 June 2020

Happy St Theo's Day 2020!

On behalf of every serving hospital porter, every former hospital porter, and everybody else who loves, appreciates and supports us, with all the Pride and Dignity of my Extremely Proud and Dignified Brother and Sister Porters, I'd like to wish all my friends and readers, a very happy St Theo's Day. 
Here is my HPANWO TV video for St Theo's this year: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/06/st-theo-2020.html.