Drakeford opposed to inquiry into
heart patients' deaths
Please may I assert that the
Minister should not be allowed to attempt to prevent a full public inquiry into
the full findings of the report by the Royal College of Surgeons. This report
stresses the need for an inquiry, and it must pointed out that the MInister,
Mark Drakeford is culpable in this failing of our University Hospital, because
he has never told us - or done anything - about these preventable deaths and
the reasons behind them.
We need to know everyone who has
failed us in this unprecedented matter of such seriousness, and we need to know
exactly why they failed in their Statutory Duty of Care to the citizens of
Wales in the provision of health services. The Health and Social Care
Act of 2001 is legislation for the people, partly to ensure that such a blatant
attempt to cover up the truth behind these unforgivable failings does not take
place.
There may be criminal charges to
follow or - at the very least - closing the University Health Board until the
public can be satisfied that no more deaths will occur under similar failings
of Hospital Managers and Board Members.
Only a full Public Inquiry into
these catastrophic events will achieve the only results acceptable to the
patients and Public of Wales. Section 11 of the H&S.C. Act covers the
essential involvement of Public and Patients that must take place. If Prof
Drakeford was not so ignorant of his legal obligations, he would have not made
such an unimplementable pledge.
Perhaps when we next advertise for a
replacemnet Board and Chief Executive, we could seek someone of Ministerial
standing who actually knows something about health ? R.W.
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