Tories lose YET MORE FILES .. This time NHS files
The scandal over the biggest ever loss of NHS medical correspondence has deepened with the revelation that a further 162,000 documents went missing, in addition to the 702,000 pieces of paperwork already known to have gone astray.
MPs said they were “dumbstruck” to learn that even more material relating to patients’ health had been mislaid, some of it by NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), the firm co-owned by the government that lost the documents.
The disclosure came at an evidence session of the Commons public accounts committee, which is investigating the disappearance that the Guardian first revealed in February.
Health officials investigating a contractor’s loss of medical correspondence have discovered a further 162,000 missing documents, which could include patient records and cancer tests, parliament’s spending watchdog was told on Monday.
Following an inquiry into the loss of the original 702,000 documents, NHS managers have admitted that two new tranches of missing medical papers have been uncovered and it is not yet known if the patients involved are at risk.
The latest lost documents could include treatment plans, details of changes to what drugs patients should be taking, child protection notes and the results of various kinds of diagnostic tests.
Officials said that in the course of their inquiries, they had identified a further 150,000 medical documents that had been mistakenly sent to the outsourcing firm Capita by GPs; and further 12,000 missing papers that had had not been processed by SBS.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a Conservative committee member, said: “You tell us the bombshell that whilst on a trawl of local trusts you find another 12,000 and then you found another 150,000 [missing] items.
“Until you have sifted through them, you don’t know if there is a serious case out there where someone is dying because the notes haven’t been transferred. So when are you going to get on top of this situation?”
Simon Stevens, the NHS’s chief executive, replied: “This should be wrapped up by the end of March. End of March is a feasible goal.”
NHS officials told the committee that of the original missing files, they sent 5,562 cases for clinical review. Of those, 4,565 have been completed – 3,624 of which have shown that there was no clinical harm to patients. There are 941 cases still to be cleared, officials said, adding that no one has yet been identified as coming to harm because of the loss.
The National Audit Office found that SBS first recognised in January 2014 that patients may have come to harm as a result of what was at the time a fast-rising backlog of undelivered paperwork.
However, despite staff raising concerns, the firm – which is 49.99% owned by the Department of Health – did not alert the department or NHS England until March last year, 26 months later. SBS was then “obstructive and unhelpful” to NHS England in the inquiry it then instigated, the NAO found.
A review of the health department’s governance arrangements in relation to SBS, undertaken by its own internal auditor, later found it had not taken up two of its three seats on the firm’s board.
NHS officials and SBS apologised for the lost documents, saying that SBS has paid £4.34m for the loss.
Meg Hillier, chair of the committee, wrapped up the fraught session by saying that the committee would ask the NAO to look again at the loss of documentation.
An NHS England spokesperson said: “These new cases have come to light as a result of our determination to leave no stone unturned and all these documents will be returned to GPs for clinical review where needed within the next 10 weeks.
“People should be reassured that despite reviewing over 97% of the records that SBS failed to process not a single case of patient harm has been identified.”
Labour said the disclosure that even more documents had gone missing than first acknowledged was “astonishing”.
Jonathan Ashworth, its shadow health secretary, said: “Hundreds of thousands of patient letters have been lost, and the secretary of state only admitted it had happened because details were leaked. Now we find even more letters went missing than we were originally told.
“The government’s response has been complacent and evasive. It’s still not clear how much public money has been wasted in this affair or how this private company is going to be held to account. It’s totally unreasonable for Jeremy Hunt to wash his hands of this when more and more details of his department’s failures keep emerging.”
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat leader, demanded that Hunt -- who has already been summoned to the Commons twice over the scandal -- should urgently appear before MPs to update them on the situation.
“This colossal blunder now turns out to be even worse than previously thought. the safety of thousands of patients has been put at risk due to the incompetence of a single private company and lack of proper oversight. Jeremy Hunt must urgently come before parliament to explain what steps are being taken to ensure this does not happen again.”
The link between the Tories and Nazis is frightening.
It seems to be the new normal for the Tory party to lose documents.
08-2014
Tories Secretly plan 2 new Garden cities to relieve housing shortages in London and home counties. They planned to build them Underground in the hope nobody would notice
10-2014
Research and reports on Drug abuse in the UK were instigated because the Tories had a bit too much cash that they couldn’t account for and had to spend it somewhere. When the report came back and stated that Society was all screwed up and bent out of shape by drug abuse due to Neoliberal austerity measures Tories launched an investigation that found that it was Tories that had applied austerity in the first place. Drug Report consigned to shredder
09-2016
Bunch of Facebook workers leaked a story about Facebook either being used to tell stories, or ignore stories or to cover up stories that might or might not have a public interest factor on the grounds that the public wouldn’t be interested
03-2017
Surrey County Council were tinkering with ways of either making some money or taking some money off the taxpayer (Either way the buggered it up) “A report” was written, and shortly after it was supposed to be used for a Budget Meeting it disappeared only to re-appear 6 weeks after the meeting was held…. too late thus. Some people got angry, a letter was sent to The Times. Everyone forgot
05-2017
Somebody decided that funding Terrorism was a rather lucrative business. The Ethics committee was sent to the Caymans for a few months and deals were done. Some bloke somewhere commissioned a report, and blow me down, the report was deemed to be of a sensitive nature and had to be filed away in the folder marked “Sensitive stuff, HIDE for 50 Years” In the middle of the Hoo Hah, Germanys Intel outfit pointed the finger at some people. Everybody felt they had really investigated the shit out of the matter and went home to a nice cup of Tea
06-2017
An Ex-Conservative MP (lost his seat poor chap) was given the job of being Chief of Staff to the PM, whose main responsibility seems to be similar to those of a broody hen, sitting on things until they hatch. This time it was some silly old report about how people living in Tower blocks might be at risk of dying due to poor precautions and safety measures in the event of a fire. Luckily for this particular chap there was just such a fire and indeed a lot of people did die, so he was given a timely reminder to get off the report and make it be known to everyone. It seems to have – a) Gone missing, or b), Never been done, or c) Been done and been deliberately lost.
I am still none the wiser
07-2017
The Labour party and some 9/11survivors got fed up waiting to the report on Terrorist Funding to be published. Like me, they are still waiting
08-2017
A report that was supposed to be suppressed managed to escape. An Ofsted report that criticised the abuse by a private company of its management of government contracts managed to get itself blamed for the potential collapse of that private company. This is what happens with reports, If you hide them people complain and when they are out in the open other people to complain
09-2017
Leaving the EU is likely to cause a large rise in the price of food in the UK…. says a report. That is a bit scary for the government of the day so they had better bury the report quickly and hope that nobody notices the price of a loaf of bread hitting £5.
09-2017
Hiding reports have become so commonplace that Theresa May has decided to enter into a bulk purchase arrangement, binning 9 reports all in one go, so far it’s a record. Let’s see what October brings.
Summary.
Looking back on the last few months, there has been at least one story per month about the “scandalous dereliction of duty” that is the covering up of secret reports.
One a month is not a coincidence, it is orchestrated, it is in itself one big cover-up. The whole Tory party Smoke and Mirrors game is there as a distraction, just like the Donald Trump circus in the US.
The major corporations have eroded our governments and our law courts and they are a mere sniff away from fixing it so that we cannot even change things back when a more caring form of government takes control again.
Our Democracies are being stolen and shredded, and the big vested business interests of the Kochs and the Trumps of this world think they are close to the winning post.
They may well be, and if they are it will be our fault, for not kicking up a holy stink and demanding those reports get an airing…we paid for the bloody things after all.
Also, let's not forget Theresa May lost 114 paedophile files.
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MPs said they were “dumbstruck” to learn that even more material relating to patients’ health had been mislaid, some of it by NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), the firm co-owned by the government that lost the documents.
The disclosure came at an evidence session of the Commons public accounts committee, which is investigating the disappearance that the Guardian first revealed in February.
Health officials investigating a contractor’s loss of medical correspondence have discovered a further 162,000 missing documents, which could include patient records and cancer tests, parliament’s spending watchdog was told on Monday.
Following an inquiry into the loss of the original 702,000 documents, NHS managers have admitted that two new tranches of missing medical papers have been uncovered and it is not yet known if the patients involved are at risk.
The latest lost documents could include treatment plans, details of changes to what drugs patients should be taking, child protection notes and the results of various kinds of diagnostic tests.
Officials said that in the course of their inquiries, they had identified a further 150,000 medical documents that had been mistakenly sent to the outsourcing firm Capita by GPs; and further 12,000 missing papers that had had not been processed by SBS.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a Conservative committee member, said: “You tell us the bombshell that whilst on a trawl of local trusts you find another 12,000 and then you found another 150,000 [missing] items.
“Until you have sifted through them, you don’t know if there is a serious case out there where someone is dying because the notes haven’t been transferred. So when are you going to get on top of this situation?”
Simon Stevens, the NHS’s chief executive, replied: “This should be wrapped up by the end of March. End of March is a feasible goal.”
NHS officials told the committee that of the original missing files, they sent 5,562 cases for clinical review. Of those, 4,565 have been completed – 3,624 of which have shown that there was no clinical harm to patients. There are 941 cases still to be cleared, officials said, adding that no one has yet been identified as coming to harm because of the loss.
The National Audit Office found that SBS first recognised in January 2014 that patients may have come to harm as a result of what was at the time a fast-rising backlog of undelivered paperwork.
However, despite staff raising concerns, the firm – which is 49.99% owned by the Department of Health – did not alert the department or NHS England until March last year, 26 months later. SBS was then “obstructive and unhelpful” to NHS England in the inquiry it then instigated, the NAO found.
A review of the health department’s governance arrangements in relation to SBS, undertaken by its own internal auditor, later found it had not taken up two of its three seats on the firm’s board.
NHS officials and SBS apologised for the lost documents, saying that SBS has paid £4.34m for the loss.
Meg Hillier, chair of the committee, wrapped up the fraught session by saying that the committee would ask the NAO to look again at the loss of documentation.
An NHS England spokesperson said: “These new cases have come to light as a result of our determination to leave no stone unturned and all these documents will be returned to GPs for clinical review where needed within the next 10 weeks.
“People should be reassured that despite reviewing over 97% of the records that SBS failed to process not a single case of patient harm has been identified.”
Labour said the disclosure that even more documents had gone missing than first acknowledged was “astonishing”.
Jonathan Ashworth, its shadow health secretary, said: “Hundreds of thousands of patient letters have been lost, and the secretary of state only admitted it had happened because details were leaked. Now we find even more letters went missing than we were originally told.
“The government’s response has been complacent and evasive. It’s still not clear how much public money has been wasted in this affair or how this private company is going to be held to account. It’s totally unreasonable for Jeremy Hunt to wash his hands of this when more and more details of his department’s failures keep emerging.”
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat leader, demanded that Hunt -- who has already been summoned to the Commons twice over the scandal -- should urgently appear before MPs to update them on the situation.
“This colossal blunder now turns out to be even worse than previously thought. the safety of thousands of patients has been put at risk due to the incompetence of a single private company and lack of proper oversight. Jeremy Hunt must urgently come before parliament to explain what steps are being taken to ensure this does not happen again.”
The link between the Tories and Nazis is frightening.
It seems to be the new normal for the Tory party to lose documents.
08-2014
Tories Secretly plan 2 new Garden cities to relieve housing shortages in London and home counties. They planned to build them Underground in the hope nobody would notice
10-2014
Research and reports on Drug abuse in the UK were instigated because the Tories had a bit too much cash that they couldn’t account for and had to spend it somewhere. When the report came back and stated that Society was all screwed up and bent out of shape by drug abuse due to Neoliberal austerity measures Tories launched an investigation that found that it was Tories that had applied austerity in the first place. Drug Report consigned to shredder
09-2016
Bunch of Facebook workers leaked a story about Facebook either being used to tell stories, or ignore stories or to cover up stories that might or might not have a public interest factor on the grounds that the public wouldn’t be interested
03-2017
Surrey County Council were tinkering with ways of either making some money or taking some money off the taxpayer (Either way the buggered it up) “A report” was written, and shortly after it was supposed to be used for a Budget Meeting it disappeared only to re-appear 6 weeks after the meeting was held…. too late thus. Some people got angry, a letter was sent to The Times. Everyone forgot
05-2017
Somebody decided that funding Terrorism was a rather lucrative business. The Ethics committee was sent to the Caymans for a few months and deals were done. Some bloke somewhere commissioned a report, and blow me down, the report was deemed to be of a sensitive nature and had to be filed away in the folder marked “Sensitive stuff, HIDE for 50 Years” In the middle of the Hoo Hah, Germanys Intel outfit pointed the finger at some people. Everybody felt they had really investigated the shit out of the matter and went home to a nice cup of Tea
06-2017
An Ex-Conservative MP (lost his seat poor chap) was given the job of being Chief of Staff to the PM, whose main responsibility seems to be similar to those of a broody hen, sitting on things until they hatch. This time it was some silly old report about how people living in Tower blocks might be at risk of dying due to poor precautions and safety measures in the event of a fire. Luckily for this particular chap there was just such a fire and indeed a lot of people did die, so he was given a timely reminder to get off the report and make it be known to everyone. It seems to have – a) Gone missing, or b), Never been done, or c) Been done and been deliberately lost.
I am still none the wiser
07-2017
The Labour party and some 9/11survivors got fed up waiting to the report on Terrorist Funding to be published. Like me, they are still waiting
08-2017
A report that was supposed to be suppressed managed to escape. An Ofsted report that criticised the abuse by a private company of its management of government contracts managed to get itself blamed for the potential collapse of that private company. This is what happens with reports, If you hide them people complain and when they are out in the open other people to complain
09-2017
Leaving the EU is likely to cause a large rise in the price of food in the UK…. says a report. That is a bit scary for the government of the day so they had better bury the report quickly and hope that nobody notices the price of a loaf of bread hitting £5.
09-2017
Hiding reports have become so commonplace that Theresa May has decided to enter into a bulk purchase arrangement, binning 9 reports all in one go, so far it’s a record. Let’s see what October brings.
Summary.
Looking back on the last few months, there has been at least one story per month about the “scandalous dereliction of duty” that is the covering up of secret reports.
One a month is not a coincidence, it is orchestrated, it is in itself one big cover-up. The whole Tory party Smoke and Mirrors game is there as a distraction, just like the Donald Trump circus in the US.
The major corporations have eroded our governments and our law courts and they are a mere sniff away from fixing it so that we cannot even change things back when a more caring form of government takes control again.
Our Democracies are being stolen and shredded, and the big vested business interests of the Kochs and the Trumps of this world think they are close to the winning post.
They may well be, and if they are it will be our fault, for not kicking up a holy stink and demanding those reports get an airing…we paid for the bloody things after all.
Also, let's not forget Theresa May lost 114 paedophile files.
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