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    "Dietician who bluffed her way into senior NHS job is struck off after colleagues discovered she didn't know where the intestines were, what a gallbladder did or how to calculate BMI"
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    Dietician who bluffed her way into senior NHS job is struck off after colleagues discovered she didn’t know where the intestines were, what a gallbladder did or how to calculate BMI


    “Dietician who bluffed her way into senior NHS job is struck off after colleagues discovered she didn’t know where the intestines were, what a gallbladder did or how to calculate BMI”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15660581/Dietician-bluffed-way-senior-NHS-job-struck-colleagues-discovered-didnt-know-intestines-gallbladder-did-calculate-BMI.html

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    1. Thandoscovia on

      Doesn’t know very basic medical terms despite being apparently senior, yet it still took weeks to suspend this fraud. No claps for her!

      I see that she moved her entire family over to the UK for this job. The article doesn’t mention it, but I assume she was immediately deported or left the country, given she dishonestly applied for a job and has been struck off?

    2. -puffinstuff- on

      Honestly the brass neck of some people, I don’t know if I’m horrified or impressed. 

      How inadequate are your recruitment processes where you can appoint someone into a fairly senior medical position and they don’t know the difference between a small and large intestine? 

    3. Duanedoberman on

      Well the NHS advertises *Wellness* and *Wellbeing* clinics, so its already embraced quackery to some extent.

    4. idreaminGIFs on

      If I got a job under false pretenses, I would do a slight bit of research into it

    6. LittlePurpleHook on

      My 4-year-old knows where the intestines are. How does one make it to adulthood without acquiring this knowledge?

    7. the_phet on

      The article says the person is from Nigeria. 

      It’s a big issue the way the NHS is validating and accepting degrees from other countries. 

    9. LonelyStranger8467 on

      Fake degrees, birth certificates, bank statements, etc. are rife in Nigeria.

      The country is so corrupt you can obtain any document you want and even the people to vouch for you.

    10. Spiritual_Breakfast9 on

      This happens way too often in the NHS.

      How does someone like this get a senior position. 

    11. Slink_Wray on

      The article mentions she was the only person interviewed for the role, which I find interesting. Presumably there weren’t many other applicants – do we have a shortage of dieticians in this country?

    12. every_little_counts on

      In a completely different role, I heard very similar things about some radiographers hired from abroad.

      Hired to do a Band 6 Radiographer role, however was discovered that their knowledge was significantly lacking, demoted down to Band 5 (with supervision) but didn’t work. Now working in a Band 4 role, but is barely keeping up with the Band 3s.

      The trust stopped hiring from abroad after this.

    13. Shmikken on

      The NHS is rife with this kind of thing, I’ve known someone to be working as a biomedical scientist doing clinical work that didn’t have a degree, almost certainly caused misdiagnosis a fair few times. When they got found out they were allowed to resign and then reapplied and was given a job as a lab assistant instead, should have been blacklisted but nooooo.

    15. adobaloba on

      I’m curious because I’ve come across a few, I don’t understand how they got hired and how they don’t get fired either. Anyone? 

    16. gompgo on

      How did she manage to go through the several layers of screening and interview process? What about the competencies of those who interviewed her – did they not ask her detailed questions?

      It just raises question on how many such people could be within the NHS system?

      I was in A&E recently with a relative, a nurse who by accent gave away origin, was taking blood pressures and asked this young lady ‘you pass urine’ – she could not understand, he repeated 6-7 times. I turned around to translate for her that he is asking whether she had a wee.

      Imagine consequences when communication is misunderstood and people respond based on what they understood which could be different from the intent of the question.

    18. crumble-bee on

      I had to google which side my liver is on the other day and even I know where the intestines are.

    19. jimmy_bean on

      Skills! Like Daddy always said: learn to lie, and you don’t gotta learn anything else!

    20. ne6c on

      Who was their manager? Who was the hiring manager? Who was on the panel?

      I don’t care if a private company wasted their money on this, but I pay for the NHS like some/most other people and this is a joke and nothing will change.

    22. Still-Instruction-66 on

      I’d guess there’s a temp agency an all manner of dubious University qualifications from Nigeria involved.

      Many such cases.

    23. frantic_calm on

      Have to wonder about the interview process.

      Presumably this is an example of a job that would have been filled by an EU national pre Brexit.