Ministers demand investigation of Covid-19 NHS and care worker deaths. What result are they after?
Yet again: the PPE used in UK hospitals is pictured bottom right. It seems a new inquiry has been commissioned, to claim that this was enough to protect doctors and nurses from catching Covid-19 in hospitals.
When you read that Tory ministers have asked medical examiners to investigate whether the Covid-19 that killed NHS and care home staff was contracted as a consequence of their work, what do you think?
Call me superstitious but it makes This Writer think Boris Johnson is trying to find an excuse to say his government’s failures aren’t responsible.
Bear in mind that Johnson has been heavily criticised for failing to order the personal protective equipment (PPE) necessary to protect NHS staff.
And the Tory government’s decision to ship care home residents who had contracted the disease back to their places of residence was also attacked as a cause of more than 20,000 excess deaths.
It would be hugely valuable to Johnson if a report could be cooked up, exonerating him of any connection with these deaths – or at least, with the vast majority of them.
The medical examiners involved in the review are described as “senior doctors employed in hospitals to independently review all deaths to verify the correct cause of death and identify any treatment concerns”.
By a curious coincidence, they were “introduced in the NHS last year”.
Never mind superstitious – call me plain suspicious if you want, but I have a doubt about the result of this inquiry. How about you?
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Clever fascist tories and clever lardy boris ordering their medical examiner minions to investigate and ensure the fascist tories are absolved of instigating state mass murder of more than 20,000 women and men in care homes!
How convenient these ‘medical examiners’ are senior doctors working within the NHS and they will be solely concerned with retaining their ‘lavish positions’ in the NHS rather than investigating state fascist accountability!
This is what should have happened – ‘Dr Rinesh Parmar, chair of the Doctors’ Association UK, said: “It’s a positive step that the government is recognising these deaths need investigation, but we would ask that they take the next step with a full coroner’s investigation into all health worker deaths.
“Coroners are best placed to carry out independent investigations. They have the experience and they are not directly employed by hospital trusts so there is less of a chance of them being persuaded to make certain decisions or recommendations.”