That is why capitalism is fundamentally stupid. It rewards the slimiest, not the best.
Comment on Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby
JoBo@feddit.uk 2 years ago
The management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.
This is devastating. Monitoring systems were set up after Harold Shipman, to make sure that such clear signals of something untoward would not be missed in future. Hospital management appear to have subverted those systems to protect their own reputations.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 years ago
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
The NHS is not capitalist, it’s a centralised government managed health system.
Nice self own there.
RemembertheApollo@kbin.social 2 years ago
Just goes to show you that any system can be subverted, however, in the capitalist system the subversion is often profitable with minimal consequences for the recipients of the profits. Yay, capitalism (/s).
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Sure, no one has ever seen a communist system be subverted and used for personal gain 🙄
merridew@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Mate if you want to moan about capitalism in healthcare go and find an American community on Lemmy.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 years ago
So - who profited in case? Or are you just riding your hobbyhorse into the middle of an unrelated story
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Capitalism doesn’t have much to do with this at all. Like others have said, the NHS is a state run organization. If you want to turn this into a political issue (it really isn’t, and isn’t appropriate given the context) you should be criticizing the state and inneffective, malicious hierarchical power structures
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Keep telling yourself that while it’s slowly dismantled for profits.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
France has the best health system in Europe and has a mix of public and private.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 years ago
What are you talking about?
merridew@feddit.uk 2 years ago
This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.
And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am not suggesting that’s a bad thing.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 years ago
and why is it being dismantled? To replace it with a for-profit system…
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Why would America do this?
plain_and_simply@feddit.uk 2 years ago
We have to name and shame them! Ian Harvey - medical director Stephen Cross - legal Karen Rees - duty executive Tony chambers - ceo Alison Kelly
They all killed babies