It's a couple days old, but I've just come across this LBC video with a phone in from a retired NHS consultant. Many others then emailed in to corroborate that they experienced the same.
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To briefly summarise, he's talking in relation to Lucy Letby and how there is definitely a "cover-up culture" within the NHS that goes up to the highest levels that even he himself has experienced when trying to speak out about things.
To the extent where even genuine mistakes will be covered up for reasons such as "Well the patient only had six months left to live anyway".
When watching it, my boyfriend piped up to say that when he spent time in the NHS as a cleaner it was the same.
Even something as simple a piece of equipment looked like it needed replacing or was about to break or let's say there could be a potential hazard such as mould? They didn't want to know, and they'd do nothing about it when he said something.
(This was mid-COVID btw, so even scarier to me to be honest. Especially when you consider everyone was supposed to be following specific rules re; cleanliness and anything he brought up was ignored!)
On top of that, we also had the Triggernometry interview with Hannah Barnes yesterday evening re; GIDS, and it very much went along the same lines.
People speaking out and being ignored. Concerns being raised. There being talk, and conversations and agreement that certain things may not be working but nothing ever happening.
Even with Letby, I saw in reporting that people were suspicious for ages before higher up's finally did something or police got involved, I'm unsure which off the top of my head right now.
Before this recent horrendousness I perhaps ignorantly assumed/hoped that the Tavistock stuff was just down to a vocal few being captured by ideology in that specific department, but now I see it seems to be more of an NHS-wide issue, and in regards to anything and everything, not just gender.
How in the flying fuck did we even get here?