
Health and care watchdog ‘not fit for purpose’ as damning report finds ‘significant internal failings’
https://news.sky.com/story/health-and-care-watchdog-not-fit-for-purpose-as-damning-report-finds-significant-internal-failings-13184970
Posted by topotaul

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Is any watch dog fit for purpose?
They have literally been made useless over the last decade and a half
Having had issues with a decade in medical limbo.
Have ptsd on top of my cptsd from endless fuckups. At this point! lol.
Have more or less given up because its just such a mad catch 22
I had issues spotted in an MRI 8 years ago!!!
I had the MRI after a gallbladder removal went wonky after having gallstone pancreatitis. A blockage was spotted in bile duct and some problem with my adrenal glands.
It took me 6 years to get the bile duct unblockage done!!! they fcuked that up as well. I had the operation nearly 2 years ago now but Have been having problem since. I went to A&E after the operation in the ealry hours. I had been discharged after the operation. I found my self becoming aware. fully dressed nurse on one arm doctor on the other. Being taken to the exit where i was left on a bench near the entrance. To me this sound completely batshit unbelievable. But it happened to me.
I still have not got any further with my adrenal glands than the call to me telling me the was an issue.
I have been going back to the GP now for all these years mostly seeing locums who dont give a monkeys.
I did manage to get a blood test finally! just before Christmas to check the adrenal glands. But that ended up being a shit show as well. the 2nd blood draw the nurse reused to take it and walked off. I had had concerns about a pill they gave me to take. I called her back and insisted on speaking to Dr. I was actually shacking. She managed to set off a cptsd attack… after kissing her teeth at me she grunted to go to a waiting area. I hobbled over there. Wher i was left for 4 hours visibly having an attack. I could not mive as my legs were in operable due to the adrenaline wobbles. went to pals where more rolling eyed karen type folk were playing on computers working on their clinal obesity. no help there.
I have tried speaking to gmc cqc and others to ask general questions on how to proceed. It a very tedious experience where limits of their capacity what they cant do etc. Their call operators seem to just constantly talk over you and not let you finish. If they do. Then they set out their limits.
Even getting past general question enquiries has proved a frustrating non starter.
I often think about all the others that must be in similar situations.
I think the is a significant cohort of decent people who have had their lives just fobbed of in to the long grass like myself.
We go through life working paying taxed and thinking the is a safety net. But the isnt the is a crab bucket of other folks past caring paying the mortgage on their highly inflated shit box. to survive.
By the time you realise its way to late to really be able to do anything about it.
If i had realised what a decade long dumpster fire of no one giving a fuck it would be. I would of gone of to a country that could provide health. On my now long lost credit card and the ability at that time to borrow. Ho hum!
No shit they aren’t fit for purpose.
I’ve been inspected by CQC, MHRA and UKAS several times. I have never once been asked about my practice or working conditions, or even been spoken to outside of earshot of a manager, but they’ve spent plenty of time pouring over competency documents, making sure the endless paperwork is correct, and complaining about meaningless rubbish just to have something to put down as a finding.
They don’t find anything damning, because they avoid dealing with anyone who isn’t management, and management are always covering their arses. They exist to make findings, as long as those findings aren’t serious and likely to embarrass the powers that be. The only time you ever hear serious condemnation and action from them, is when someone outside the system like the press or police have discovered something and the cat is already out of the bag.