I work allied to the NHS and we've definitely had emails this week about political neutrality. How does retweeting this stuff (let alone the comments and vociferous opinions) stand with that? When you're clearly identifiable and trading off your professional registration and position in the health service for weight?
It's fine for MoJ to instruct Prison Officers to gaslight women in prison.
It's fine for the NHS to have the culture that supports the gaslighting of women patients, even for such a matter as this. Despite the 6 values of the NHS Constitution. These values that must run through every NHS employee from estates to clinical and AHP to board members and they're enforced during recruitment and in performance evaluation.
There are six values that all staff – everyone from porters, physiotherapists, nurses, paramedics and gardeners to secretaries, consultants, healthcare scientists and phlebotomists – are expected to demonstrate:
working together for patients Patients come first in everything we do
respect and dignity We value every person – whether patient, their families or carers, or staff – as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits
commitment to quality of care We earn the trust placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics of quality of care – safety, effectiveness and patient experience right every time
compassion We ensure that compassion is central to the care we provide and respond with humanity and kindness to each person’s pain, distress, anxiety or need
improving lives We strive to improve health and wellbeing and people’s experiences of the NHS
everyone counts We maximise our resources for the benefit of the whole community, and make sure nobody is excluded, discriminated against or left behind
www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/working-nhs/nhs-constitution
And, Nolan. Where are Nolan Principles in all of this?
Selflessness : Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest.
Integrity : Holders of public office must avoid placing themselves under any obligation to people or organisations that might try inappropriately to influence them in their work. They should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friends. They must declare and resolve any interests and relationships.
Objectivity : Holders of public office must act and take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias.
Accountability : Holders of public office are accountable to the public for their decisions and actions and must submit themselves to the scrutiny necessary to ensure this.
Openness : Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing.
Honesty : Holders of public office should be truthful.
Leadership : Holders of public office should exhibit these principles in their own behaviour. They should actively promote and robustly support the principles and be willing to challenge poor behaviour wherever it occurs.
Introduced in 1995 by the UK government, Committee on Standards in Public Life, these important values are enshrined in codes of conduct across the public sector, from schools and government departments to hospitals. In Scotland, the principles are extended further with two additional requirements:
Public Service : Holders of public office have a duty to act in the interests of the public body of which they are a board member and to act in accordance with the core tasks of the body.
Respect : Holders of public office must respect fellow members of their public body and employees of the body and the role they play, treating them with courtesy at all times
www.good-governance.org.uk/publications/insights/the-nolan-principles