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... the Safety Cameras in hospitals?
Which, according to this article in the Times;
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1214595,00.html
"72,000 people die each year in NHS hospitals in part as a result of avoidable mistakes by hospital staff"
Twenty-four times as many as on the roads. So where are the "Hospital Safety Partnerships"? The media campaigns potraying nurses and doctors as evil baby-slayers? The equivalents of BRAKE ("KNIFE"?) for the medical profession?
Oh, hang on. As you were. There's no money in any of that.
>>> Edited by zumbruk on Friday 13th August 11:41
Which, according to this article in the Times;
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1214595,00.html
"72,000 people die each year in NHS hospitals in part as a result of avoidable mistakes by hospital staff"
Twenty-four times as many as on the roads. So where are the "Hospital Safety Partnerships"? The media campaigns potraying nurses and doctors as evil baby-slayers? The equivalents of BRAKE ("KNIFE"?) for the medical profession?
Oh, hang on. As you were. There's no money in any of that.
>>> Edited by zumbruk on Friday 13th August 11:41
Exactly. As I've said before, we need cameras under beds to pick up cleaners who miss the dirt. Now we should augment them with cameras in operating theatres to catch "operating without due care and attention" and "dangerous operating".
Of course it will be necessary for each surgeon to wear a machine-readable reflective name-tag with a specific font, but that's trivial to implement and no doctor would object to paying for that. Each scalpel will also have a tachograph connection that ensures that any exessive cutting-speed (20's plenty) is retrospectively picked up and a fine and points imposed. It would again be for the operator to fund such costs where the benefit to the general public is so unequivocally obvious. 12 points and the surgeon is banned, of course. Automated Name-Tag Recognition (ANTR) would then be used to identify banned surgeons, resulting in their scalpels being crushed.
Of course it will be necessary for each surgeon to wear a machine-readable reflective name-tag with a specific font, but that's trivial to implement and no doctor would object to paying for that. Each scalpel will also have a tachograph connection that ensures that any exessive cutting-speed (20's plenty) is retrospectively picked up and a fine and points imposed. It would again be for the operator to fund such costs where the benefit to the general public is so unequivocally obvious. 12 points and the surgeon is banned, of course. Automated Name-Tag Recognition (ANTR) would then be used to identify banned surgeons, resulting in their scalpels being crushed.
zumbruk said:
... the Safety Cameras in hospitals?
Which, according to this article in the Times;
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1214595,00.html">www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1214595,00.html</a>
"72,000 people die each year in NHS hospitals in part as a result of avoidable mistakes by hospital staff"
Twenty-four times as many as on the roads. So where are the "Hospital Safety Partnerships"? The media campaigns potraying nurses and doctors as evil baby-slayers? The equivalents of BRAKE ("KNIFE"?) for the medical profession?
Oh, hang on. As you were. There's no money in any of that.
>>> Edited by zumbruk on Friday 13th August 11:41
I have been banging on about this for years, ever since Dr Mark Porter wrote of 56,000 accidental deaths a year within the NHS.
Replying to one of my newspaper letters, a local anti-car loonie called me "sick" for even mentioning it.
Seems he only cared about third party deaths if a car was involved.
alon
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