The power of questions During the last week, we have all been investigating Nu Labour's use of Citizen's Juries/rigged consultations. The nature of the ingrained bias was first described by the wonderful Focal Spot. Over the last 6 months I have been chasing a Whistleblowers meeting that occurred in secret without any Whistleblowers. I described my brief investigations on Ward 87. I discovered that meetings were co-ordinated by a obscure little man called Adrian Delemore. Adrian Delemore runs something called the Justice In Health Network. It is a very exclusive group open to the chosen few. Adrian told the world that there were no Labour members in the group. The members themselves then admitted there were a few Labour members floating around. The identities of these people were concealed from prying eyes.
No one knows who Adrian is apart from the fact that he is able to command a Labour MP to chair his meeting at the Houses of Parliament. This is quite a feat for anyone. Adrian professes that his Network is non political. No one believes him. Indeed, his involvement in policy issues was advertised here.
In the case of the July 2009 meeting held in Parliament behind closed doors, the MP was David Taylor. David chaired the meeting about whistleblowers without the attendance of said whistleblowers. We assume Adrian wished to create policies about whistleblowers without inviting any whistleblowers. David Taylor MP is infamous for spending £300 plus on footstools then asking the tax payer to foot the bill.
On direct questioning of this meeting, his office wrote as follows :-
Daniel Crimes for Nu Labour wrote
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No one knows who Adrian is apart from the fact that he is able to command a Labour MP to chair his meeting at the Houses of Parliament. This is quite a feat for anyone. Adrian professes that his Network is non political. No one believes him. Indeed, his involvement in policy issues was advertised here.
"Adrian Delemore runs JIHN, which is concerned with health policy issues from a patient, family carer, service user perspective. JIHN is looking at how an online community in health may be brought into being to further a strong and informed patient voice on health policy issues"
In the case of the July 2009 meeting held in Parliament behind closed doors, the MP was David Taylor. David chaired the meeting about whistleblowers without the attendance of said whistleblowers. We assume Adrian wished to create policies about whistleblowers without inviting any whistleblowers. David Taylor MP is infamous for spending £300 plus on footstools then asking the tax payer to foot the bill.
On direct questioning of this meeting, his office wrote as follows :-
Daniel Crimes for Nu Labour wrote
I was a little puzzled by this given Focal Spot's submissions sometime ago :-"I can only add that this was in no way comparable to, say, a meeting of a Committee of the House. It was an informal gathering of members of the Justice in Health Network who hoped to discuss, from a lay perspective, healthcare regulation issues arising from the Margaret Haywood case. It was hoped that some Peers and MPs would attend but only David Taylor was able to"
"The location of the meeting was kept secret until three days before the event and when this consultant was eventually told the location and turned up in Birmingham for the "Citizens Jury" it turned out that medical staff were outnumbered 2:1 by laypeople specifically chosen by an agency to attend the event"Adrian Delemore then told me as follows :-
Then
"Following the "consultation" the medical delegates were told to leave but the other 2/3 of the audience were kept back and each given an envelope. My colleague was intrigued by this and managed to catch one of the "chosen ones" and ask about the contents. Each envelope contained £75 in cash!"
"In fact, whistle blowers were not ignored. However, the meeting was arranged at fairly short notice to fit in with a very limited window of opportunity"Compare with Focal Spot who states
"The location of the meeting was kept secret until three days before the event"
He then wrote as follows :-
It follows, that Adrian Delemore had no intention of accepting Whistleblowers or those who knew about patient safety into his fold. He has also failed to answer legitimate questions about his affiliations. In the meantime, discord hit the Network when the following exchanges occurred. I was sent a announcement from the National Patient Safety Agency. The NPSA were providing each participant with £65 as expenses. This was the flier sent by Adrian Delemore. Click here to download. The flier states
Dr Umesh Prabhu who can always be found whenever there is an opportunity of fame. That is because Umesh is an opportunist. He had this to say
"Fair and Open Culture" is an interesting phrase since the Network is only open to exclusive members.
This was the response from a very experienced member of the health profession and a Network member.
Following the above, Adrian Delemore shut down the Network. Amongst a number of emails released today to me, one from Adrian stated as follows in response to my list of questions issued to him a few days ago. The list of questions can be downloaded here.
Instead of adding legitimate names of whistleblowers and various individuals to the list of the Network, Mr Delemore decided to suspend his email list. These are the actions of a man who has something to conceal. He purported to welcome Whistleblowers but refused to invite any of them to the November meeting. He purported to be interested in those who have suffered medical neglect but decided not to include them in his Network. His front of inviting me to the meeting was a disguise. A reliable informer told me as follows :-
The matter progressed rapidly when I began asking Adrian about any connections with Nu Labour. I asked why Focal Spots report of a rigged consultation was almost identical to the one called by Adrian Delemore.
Adrian then wrote
Adrian then wrote
"I wish to take things further on the whistleblowing front, but do not have time to discuss now in this email. I will also ask whether you would be available to attend a meeting in London on 23 November, which you may wish to do after we have spoken"To test Adrian out to see whether he was a man of his word, I provided him with a list of people who were involved in patient safety issues who would benefit from the network. Afterall, Adrian admitted that "whistleblowers were not ignored". In this list, I provided all the names of the leading whistleblowers in the United Kingdom, these names included Dr Aubrey Blumsohn, Ian Perkin, Otto Chan, Raj Mattu. I was more concerned that they were all added to the network and were sent invitations to the forthcoming meeting on the 23rd November 2009. Unknown to me and similar to the traits of Nu Labour, some damning emails were being set around the Network about my innocent request to add "names" to his Network. These emails were subsequently leaked to me by a number of individuals belonging to the Network.
He then wrote as follows :-
I am forwarding the email below in order to keep you in the picture, and give you the opportunity to help me decide upon what action to take if any.
I have been hearing more in relation to Dr Pal which gives me cause for concern. She is also sending 'defammatory' emails to people both inside and outside the Network.
In my email to Dr Pal (below) in a spirit of openness I asked whether she would be available for a meeting 'in London on 23 November'. I had in mind inviting her to our meeting at the PDMF. She is now, incorrectly (par for the course with Dr Pal), emailing all and sundry inviting them to a meeting 'in the Houses of Parliament on the 23/11/09'. As she has sent the email to me, I presume it is our meeting to which she is referring.
I need to decide whether :-
1. To ignore her completely as at least one academic is doing.
2. To email correcting her error. In which case, do I withdraw the invitation to her, and by implication those whom she is inviting. This of course may give her more opportunity to circulate misleading or untrue comments/suppositions/conspiracy theories.
3. Do we give the correct address and allow Dr Pal's invitations to stand. In which case, I will need to have a substantial attendance at the meeting from Network members and participants, and hopefully other interested parties.
If the latter course were taken, one other option comes to my mind. If a delegation were nominated to attend for the Network (perhaps ten informed people) together with perhaps an academic or two by way of ensuring independent observation, a section of the meeting could be specifically to address the situation with Dr Pal and Dr Blumsohn.
If it were possible to have a statement correcting the misinformation being distributed by Dr Pal in her blog and otherwise, signed by many Network members and participants, this may be an additional or alternative way to deal with this matter. We may even then be in a position to establish some kind of relationship with responsible people.
It follows, that Adrian Delemore had no intention of accepting Whistleblowers or those who knew about patient safety into his fold. He has also failed to answer legitimate questions about his affiliations. In the meantime, discord hit the Network when the following exchanges occurred. I was sent a announcement from the National Patient Safety Agency. The NPSA were providing each participant with £65 as expenses. This was the flier sent by Adrian Delemore. Click here to download. The flier states
"We will provide up to £65 for travel expenses (with receipts) for attendance at the focus group"And which NHS budget is that being extracted out of ? It should be noted that no one else was aware of this flier apart from the "Network".
Dr Umesh Prabhu who can always be found whenever there is an opportunity of fame. That is because Umesh is an opportunist. He had this to say
"Personally, I think NPSA has increased awareness about patient safety in the NHS and general public. NPSA has also has some excellent training programmes and has organised many events nationally to understand the route cause analysis and what to do when there is any tragedy. I think it will be a sad day if NPSA is closed.And of course the ex NPSA member would say the above.
But, NPSA should have been more proactive, should have the authority to deal with issues when Trusts are not being ‘Open and Honest’ with relatives, when Trusts fail to report deaths due to medical errors and Trusts who fail to listen to patients and public.
I also strongly believe that if any patient has died or has suffered serious injury due to medical errors then the Trust should always invite outside expert to advice the Trust. These experts should look at systems failure, individual doctors and nurses contribution and advice the Trust how to deal with these failures. Relatives/patients should always get a copy of that report. This is what I call ‘Fair and Open’ culture"
"Fair and Open Culture" is an interesting phrase since the Network is only open to exclusive members.
This was the response from a very experienced member of the health profession and a Network member.
"Yes I agree with the content of your e-mail, but the NPSA cater for those who can and know the rules, take the case of JB just a few months ago where they wrote to her father who had died in 2006, J is not alone.She previously added the following in her email headed " I QUIT".
I contacted the NPSA earlier this year and I was told that they the NPSA do not do follow up for patients and families, they collate information for the Government.
I also agree that they hold many training programs including the program they set up in June 2009 when they invited an American house wife (as she proudly informed us several times) and her cortege to tell us how we could do the same as a small group of American housewife's had done when they forced their government to give them medical help.
I asked her why was she in England telling us how to do what we had already done, and asked here whether she was writing a book about our medical profession or the NHS in general, once again she proudly announced that she was invited by our Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson, he heard her speak on the world wide NPSA of her achievement.
I told her America did not have a NHS like ours. I had a nephew who is a barrister working for the American government in the UN, I have also visited my family in America .
I told her I was a member of the PPIF, the Elected Member of the PPIF Steering Group she ask what that was, I told her what she was telling us to do, that most of the people of England and Wales has told our Chief Medical Officer, and that either he was stone deaf and can not read, but one thing I was sure off, HE did not listen to the voice of the people, there were others at that meeting on the 11th June 2009 that heard me speak, the meeting ended at 3.15pm, my questions were too hard for them to answer.
The American housewife made sure we all claimed our travel expenses paid for by the NHS. She quickly left the meeting, their secretary made sure we all signed.
Umesh you as a pediatrician doctor you know how hard up the NHS is in the children wards, and can you imagine what it is like on the geriatric wards where they are the forgotten patients who had to pay £30.00 a month for their food and yet were dying of malnutrition as they were not able to eat. I was in the nursing profession then and went on the Kilroy program, yes Helped the Age heard me and it was dropped in 2002, those organizations were like the Chief Medical Officers they were stone deaf since the Labour Party brought this in, in 1965.
Umesh as a Trustee of AvMA. Anna Allford set up this Focus Group which was an American training program would you please inform me how much did it cost the taxpayer to bring Martin Hatlie, Susan Sheridan and their secretary to London for a week, holding three two hour sessions a day, telling us how to we can get better treatment from our NHS, perhaps AvMA could explain how those people who do not have a national health service of their own can teach us.
Also is Sir Liam Donaldson fit to be our medical officer, I would have thought he should have sent an English housewife to America to tell them about our wonderful NHS! It is the best in the world in spite of its faults.
AvMA should listen to us here and help the old and vulnerable that have problems instead of encouraging people to sue the NHS, only helping lawyers to get rich, those who give up their youth, made this country welcome to every one, are dying in such horrible conditions they do not have the money to pay a lawyer. The money spent on the American house wife could have given a few nice meals in some of our nursing homes or had helped to provide some quality care on my old ward where I worked.
"They are there, because this government throws loads of money into black holes, people who pretend they are helping the vulnerable are not answerable to anyone, there is a lovely social life in attending meeting and talking about what to do, they know nothing about what is happening in reality"
Following the above, Adrian Delemore shut down the Network. Amongst a number of emails released today to me, one from Adrian stated as follows in response to my list of questions issued to him a few days ago. The list of questions can be downloaded here.
A Network member proceeded to tell me :-"A Dr Rita Pal has mounted an attack upon the Network, and others outside it. Someone, not I, has supplied Dr Pal with many Network email addresses.
As a result of Dr Pal's attacks and attempt to damage the Network, I must temporarily suspend the Network in order to minimise damage. Please do not reply to any emails from Dr Pal, or any emails that contain multiple names which you think are connected with the Network. Please do not send out any emails to the Network for the moment.
Dr Pal is including in her emails the names of people who have nothing to do with the Network. The result is that Network members and participants are responding to Dr Pal's emails, giving the impression that the Network is irresponsibly emailing people who have requested not to be included. Please await further contact from me or Penny Bunn.
Please do not copy this email to anyone else whether inside the Network or outside it.
If you want to find out more, please either email me alone, or phone me, or wait until I am able to contact you.
Kind regards
Adrian
"I think Adrian used you Rita as an excuse"
Instead of adding legitimate names of whistleblowers and various individuals to the list of the Network, Mr Delemore decided to suspend his email list. These are the actions of a man who has something to conceal. He purported to welcome Whistleblowers but refused to invite any of them to the November meeting. He purported to be interested in those who have suffered medical neglect but decided not to include them in his Network. His front of inviting me to the meeting was a disguise. A reliable informer told me as follows :-
"They have also said that if you or your colleagues are going to attend the meeting on the 23rd that they will go for the showdown as well!"
Nu Labour has remained silent throughout the entire fiasco with David Taylor MP repeatedly checking his emails hence the read receipts received by me. I also now have the full list of the Justice in Health Network. Rebellion has broken out in this tight knit exclusive club of Network members who were allegedly part of the "rigging" system of consultations. Decisions about whistleblowers were made without the whistleblowers - what other meetings have been held without the public's knowledge?
This article is a preliminary to the extensive piece we are working on for the website. There is no doubt that Adrian and his Labour pals are running around like headless chickens as they discovered there are many many many leaks within their Network. Of course, blocking those leaks is going to be a mammoth task since there are infiltrators everywhere. Of course, there are conspirators, co-conspirators, conspirators by proxy, conspirators of those conspirators :) etc etc. All we wanted to know was how Nu Labour conducted its extensive puppetry within the NHS. Adrian Delemore had a overreaction to a list of simple questions. We shall leave it to the audience to examine why he overreacted in this manner. The simpler solution would have been to respond to the questions put to him. Perhaps those questions just touched a raw nerve. No doubt this post will have him and his Nu Labour colleagues playing the game of the headless chickens. Being out of control in an organisation that leaks like a sieve is extremely problematic for someone like Adrian. Afterall, he appears unable to maintain data security despite signing an interesting letter to Jack Straw on clause 152, he appears unable to control the large numbers of his Network who leak his information far and wide and he professes one thing but practices something different leading us all to question his real motives.
More on this another day.....
Dr Rita Pal
This article is a preliminary to the extensive piece we are working on for the website. There is no doubt that Adrian and his Labour pals are running around like headless chickens as they discovered there are many many many leaks within their Network. Of course, blocking those leaks is going to be a mammoth task since there are infiltrators everywhere. Of course, there are conspirators, co-conspirators, conspirators by proxy, conspirators of those conspirators :) etc etc. All we wanted to know was how Nu Labour conducted its extensive puppetry within the NHS. Adrian Delemore had a overreaction to a list of simple questions. We shall leave it to the audience to examine why he overreacted in this manner. The simpler solution would have been to respond to the questions put to him. Perhaps those questions just touched a raw nerve. No doubt this post will have him and his Nu Labour colleagues playing the game of the headless chickens. Being out of control in an organisation that leaks like a sieve is extremely problematic for someone like Adrian. Afterall, he appears unable to maintain data security despite signing an interesting letter to Jack Straw on clause 152, he appears unable to control the large numbers of his Network who leak his information far and wide and he professes one thing but practices something different leading us all to question his real motives.
More on this another day.....
Dr Rita Pal
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