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A canary at one of England's worst performing
hospital trusts have recently stated that there's a fear amid the hospital
staff which is letting the patients healths in risk.
An
insider claimed that the trust operates and is a bit like the mafia. The trust
claimed that the patient was taken seriously. Yet, the erstwhile and current
clinicians at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Trust asserted that
they were punished by the management.
The
concerns include the dangerous shortage of nurses and the absence of proper
communication led to the death of patients under haematology as they weren't
given treatment.
This
Trust which is one of the largest trusts in the UK in the healthcare aspect
which has 4 hospitals gives service to more than two million patients a year.
Even
a review was conducted in 2017 which was led by a consultant Emmanouil
Nikolousis which states that 20 deaths were mentioned in the same manner in the
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the haematology department.
Later, Mr Nikolousis abandoned the trust after a few years, that is in
2020. He was disturbed by the negligence he found and thinks that patients if
given treatment would have been saved.
The
report by Mr Nikolousis condemned that the clinicians had a lack of proper
communication among them and no one showed ownership towards the health of
patients. He states that there should have been proper actions taken. And the
patients would have been saved. He even states that if there is no action taken
then there is a really high possibility of no outcome. The diseases in
haematology are highly complex and need immediate treatment and the
accountability must be taken by the clinicians. Also there is a requirement of
a good coordination of the team which wasn't seen in the hospitals.
Mr
Nikolousis has no other choice but to quit after his own findings.