Secret Filming Nurse "struck off"

[OneFootInTheGrave]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8002559.stm

In short, the nurse filmed for BBC the poor care that the elderly received in one of NHS hospitals... and surprise surprise... the long arm of "Nursing and Midwifery Council" got her... she has been struck off for misconduct.

It's was not a problem that the service is abysmal from the hospital/the whatever council that's supervising nurses (and is taking this action against her), nooo... the nurse was behaving "fundamentally incompatible with being a nurse"?!? Imagine that.

The chair of the panel, Linda Read, said Ms Haywood had prioritized the filming, which in the view of the panel "was a major breach of the code of conduct".

She said: "A patient should be able to trust a nurse with his/her physical condition and psychological wellbeing without that confidential information being disclosed to others.

like - the fact the conditions are abysmal (not just poor, or bad, a lot worse than that) in the first place, and that in principle there is no place to go and complain either (you might as well die before getting any kind of answer, and would surely die before getting an adequate inquiry on your complaint)... etc...

Although the conditions on the ward were dreadful, it was not necessary to breach confidentiality to seek to improve them by the method chosen.

should we laugh or cry...

I have one word for you, one word (and it's not Plastics ) - England

not UK, I feel sorry for Scots, Welsh and Irish having to share this country with them, and also for the mass of English people who try to do something but are without fail subject to "nurse Margaret" treatment, whenever possible. ****ing incompetent wankers leading the show and making sure things do not get better. I have a feeling they got their inbred asses on top sometime in middle ages, and didn't have a proper revolution to clean them out in the meantime. Through the time they really developed special incompetence defence mechanisms which can deal with any threat of disclosure, or improvement at their expense. They prosper while everything else is choked. Hot Fuzz was not a joke. This - a lovely example of "English style" corruption (it's not corruption, it's "a fitness to practise hearing") is sure to go to the bottom of the media pile when Jordan grows a third nipple (will happen shortly).

[Grandpa Troll]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8002559.stm

In short, the nurse filmed for BBC the poor care that the elderly received in one of NHS hospitals... and surprise surprise... the long arm of "Nursing and Midwifery Council" got her... she has been struck off for misconduct.

It's was not a problem that the service is abysmal from the hospital/the whatever council that's supervising nurses (and is taking this action against her), nooo... the nurse was behaving "fundamentally incompatible with being a nurse"?!? Imagine that.

The chair of the panel, Linda Read, said Ms Haywood had prioritized the filming, which in the view of the panel "was a major breach of the code of conduct".

She said: "A patient should be able to trust a nurse with his/her physical condition and psychological wellbeing without that confidential information being disclosed to others.

like - the fact the conditions are abysmal (not just poor, or bad, a lot worse than that) in the first place, and that in principle there is no place to go and complain either (you might as well die before getting any kind of answer, and would surely die before getting an adequate inquiry on your complaint)... etc...

Although the conditions on the ward were dreadful, it was not necessary to breach confidentiality to seek to improve them by the method chosen.

should we laugh or cry...

I have one word for you, one word (and it's not Plastics ) - England

not UK, I feel sorry for Scots, Welsh and Irish having to share this country with them, and also for the mass of English people who try to do something but are without fail subject to "nurse Margaret" treatment, whenever possible. ****ing incompetent wankers leading the show and making sure things do not get better. I have a feeling they got their inbred asses on top sometime in middle ages, and didn't have a proper revolution to clean them out in the meantime. Through the time they really developed special incompetence defence mechanisms which can deal with any threat of disclosure, or improvement at their expense. They prosper while everything else is choked. Hot Fuzz was not a joke. This - a lovely example of "English style" corruption (it's not corruption, it's "a fitness to practise hearing") is sure to go to the bottom of the media pile when Jordan grows a third nipple (will happen shortly).

Sad state of affairs

So, just asking, this aint a Monthy Python film is it?

Benny Hills?

Men behaving Badly?

I mean, coming from a country that drinks warm beer, much else is not to be expected

[OneFootInTheGrave]

this is more like Little Britain - the latest documentary on all things British in 21st century...

[Krill]

Congratulations. You missed the whole point of why she got struck off. She filmed vulnerable adults who could not consent to being part of a film and then handed over said film containing priviligded infomation to a third party, when she was trusted to act in the patients best interests.

She abused the patients and should be fired.

The fact that her bosses were incompetent wankers who don't understand their, or anyone elses' job, is irrelevent.

[Seeker]

Exposing their plight is in their best interests. One would hope that the opinion of the abusers (the authority) about what is or is not in the patients best interest would be the irrelevancy here.

[C0ckney]

She abused the patients and should be fired.

blowing the whistle on poor conditions in a hospital is 'abusing the patients'? what a ridiculous thing to say.

[DinoDoc]

blowing the whistle on poor conditions in a hospital is 'abusing the patients'? what a ridiculous thing to say.

She filmed vulnerable adults who could not consent to being part of a film and then handed over said film containing priviligded infomation to a third party

She shouldn't have been the only one fired though.

[Krill]

Exposing their plight is in their best interests. One would hope that the opinion of the abusers (the authority) about what is or is not in the patients best interest would be the irrelevancy here.

Yes, exposing the awful conditions is in the patients best interests. There are policies in place to do that (and if there aren't the Government has the power to close the hospital).

What she did was film the patients, conversations with them, without them knowing. The rights of those patients to not have their conditions publicised were infringed.

That is why she should be fired.

The last sentence doesn't even make sense though. Both the 'whistleblower', and managers in Stafford Hospital were the abusers in this situation.

[Krill]

blowing the whistle on poor conditions in a hospital is 'abusing the patients'? what a ridiculous thing to say.

Bollocks. Next time you in hospital with AIDS or MRSA or whatever, be thankful that the nurses aren't shouting to the rest of the ward "Be careful with that one he has xxx", otherwise you would find yourself a pariah.

Same argument as above. Refute it or STFU.

[Krill]

She filmed vulnerable adults who could not consent to being part of a film and then handed over said film containing priviligded infomation to a third party

She shouldn't have been the only one fired though.

No, she definately shouldn't. The problem with many managers (MD and not) is that they do not understand how difficult it is on the shop floor at times, as they have never worked in those roles before.

[Sirotnikov]

What she did was film the patients, conversations with them, with them knowing. The rights of those patients to not have their conditions publicised were infringed.

I assume you mean without them knowing.

All of which is easily solvable by disguising their faces by pixelation, which takes 10 seconds in any video application the BBC might own.

[Krill]

Thanks for the catch, I'll go edit the post.

Pixelating the faces doesn't work; who pixelates the faces?

[Sirotnikov]

Thanks for the catch, I'll go edit the post.

Pixelating the faces doesn't work; who pixelates the faces?

the Beeb before public broadcast.

Then everyone's rights are assured.

[Dauphin]

Krill sums up the points nicely.

Whilst she may have had laudable goals, she went about things in completely the wrong way.

[Dauphin]

the Beeb before public broadcast.

Then everyone's rights are assured.

By providing it to the Beeb without pixelating she has passed on confidential and personally identifiable material to a third party.