Campaigning to bring a swift end to inhumane visiting restrictions, neglect, and abuse, in all care settings. Join us at facebook.com/groups/1214685

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1)We are daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, wives, husbands.Our aim is to bring a swift end to the inhumane visiting bans that have torn us apart from our loved ones, denied them family love and care for over a year, and robbed many of the will to live.Please support our fight!
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The way Halford-Hall speaks to and about whistleblowers is absolutely shocking
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A WBUK insider told us Georgina Halford-Hall was "interested in cases that would be high profile or end up giving WhistleblowersUK lots of money" Since the release of Whistleblower Inc, more people have come forward to say they were never contacted back by WBUK, or were asked for a percentage of any settlement in return for support.
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NHS OFFERED A MAN £41,000 TO FORGET 90 PEOPLE DIED Paul Calvert was a former police officer working as a coroner's officer for North East Ambulance Service. His job was to prepare reports on patient deaths for coroner inquests. What he found instead was a systematic cover-up. Paramedic errors linked to more than 90 patient deaths. Evidence withheld from coroners. Families lied to. Bereaved people who never got the truth about how their loved ones died. He went to The Sunday Times in May 2022. The story exploded. @BBCNewsnight, @BBCNews at Six, BBC Sounds. The country watched. NEAS panicked. Their response? A £41,000 offer, on the condition he stayed silent and handed over his evidence. He called it a "bribe to shut up and go away." He refused to take it. He also refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. MP Grahame Morris @grahamemorris raised his case in the Commons and described it as: bullying, harassment, blackmail. After that Calvert was signed off sick for 17 months with depression and anxiety. Then sacked in December 2022 for what NEAS called an "irretrievable breakdown of trust." The man who wouldn't accept a bribe to cover up 90 deaths was fired for failing to return to work at the organisation that tried to bribe him. Makes perfect sense, when you think about it from the perspective of an institution trying to save its own skin. The Information Commissioner's Office @ICOnews later had to force NEAS to publish a suppressed internal report it had been sitting on since 2020. The Trust's medical director and safety director both resigned. Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced a new independent review. Calvert described it as "empty rhetoric" and demanded a full public inquiry with compelled evidence. He never got one. The review that did eventually take place, led in 2023 by NHS insider Marianne Griffiths, was so limited in scope that Calvert refused to participate on principle. It spoke to four families. Four, out of ninety-plus deaths. This is what institutional accountability looks like in the NHS. Not justice. Not transparency. A suppressed report, a bribery attempt, a sacking, and a review designed to speak to the minimum number of people necessary to call it a review. Paul Calvert lost his career for doing his job correctly. The people who tried to buy his silence have moved on. Sources: @BBCNews @SundayTimesNews @alexander_minh
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If your to lie about being a victim Something no whistleblower should do No whistleblower org should commend What else are you prepared to lie about?
Georgina Halford Hall was contacted on 14 April and again on 16 April with a full right of reply and 10 days to respond followed up offering an extension. No response. Jo Gideon was contacted separately on 8 May. The deadline to respond was 6pm on 11 May. No response. WBUK chose not to engage. Then claimed they were never asked. The emails are now public. Readers can judge for themselves.
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Replying to @ArturNadol7566
I am in shock after Georgina Hallford Hall asked me to help fund WBUK, the discovering all these things that are suggesting she is trying to make money out of whistleblowers AND working within Parliament? @tessamunt I have asked Tessa to investigate AND.. Parliament.
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Georgina Halford Hall was contacted on 14 April and again on 16 April with a full right of reply and 10 days to respond followed up offering an extension. No response. Jo Gideon was contacted separately on 8 May. The deadline to respond was 6pm on 11 May. No response. WBUK chose not to engage. Then claimed they were never asked. The emails are now public. Readers can judge for themselves.
Replying to @WB_UK
Sorry, this is simply not true, your CEO was contacted on the 14th & 16th April at the secretary@wbuk.org email address and given 10 days to reply, we even followed up asking if she would like an extension as we understood these were complex matters and would need time to edit responses into the film should they be supplied. Jo Gideon was contacted separately on 8th May via the email address on her personal website contact@jogideon.com with a note saying we had not heard from Halford-Hall, and offered her the chance to respond on behalf of the senior leadership of the organisation.
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Legal aid reforms in #KingsSpeech will increase the number of legally aided inquests from 400 to 11,400 a year. Costing £185 million. Finally ending the inequality of arms where NHS Trusts turn up with a phalanx of lawyers against still grieving families often alone and confused
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More in Common finds only 29% of Britons want the same Assisted Dying bill "introduced as soon as possible, in the same form". And just 41% of supporters. Dignity in Dying and hardcore MPs talking about bringing it back are out of line with public opinion.
With the Assisted Dying Bill timed out in the Lords, what do the public want to happen next? It's clear there is strong appetite for a Bill to be reintroduce, but the median Brit would prefer a new bill with stronger safeguards, rather than the same bill using the parliament act
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The delay on this is appalling. I feel so sorry the family still have no peace of mind on this. Why is it taking so long? Why so many delays? This doesn’t feel like any type of Justice to me. May truth prevail. @MaajidNawaz @JacquiDeevoy1 @ng16322
BREAKING MIDAZOLAM INQUEST: One of the country’s leading palliative care experts, who chaired and wrote the UK’s national palliative care guideline NG31, Professor Sam Ahmedzai declares under oath that Derek Dimmock’s CAUSE OF DEATH was a MIDAZOLAM OVERDOSE caused by the doctors themselves (iatrogenic). He stated as follows: 1A: iatrogenic, acute intoxication with MIDAZOLAM, alfentanil, and Oxycodone B: uncontrolled acute polyarticulate gout, with suspected vertebral gout, and C: acute renal failure, aggregated by enforced dehydration.
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Our founder @Amanda_M_hunter & co-founder of @EolWatch on why we need to listen to disability activist @GeorgeFielding1 on how adult social care needs to change, and why we believe there needs to be a revolution in the way care is funded, delivered, managed, peopled & regulated
George is a voice to be listened to. He brings a wealth of experience, knowledge and insight to discussions on adult social care - from the crisis in funding, recruitment, retention, and capacity, to the unsustainable burden currently being placed on unpaid family carers, many of whom have been forced to give up work and go on benefits to fill the burgeoning gaps in social care provision. The adult care sector is failing to meet existing need, and is wholly unprepared for the task of meeting future demand. The current model of private provision is unsustainable. It is impoverishing families, bankrupting local authorities, and monumentally failing to provide safe and dignified care to those in need. We need a radical rethink about how social care is funded, organized, delivered, regulated and peopled, with new models of care fit for 21st century need. @CareUnlock @Amanda_M_Hunter @CompassnInCare
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@GeorgeFielding1 shared his experience of both drawing on care & running companies that provide care for others. He said we need to work better across society to care about all people, including carers. #SpringSeminar26
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They shouldn't withdraw it unless he's become dysphagic.
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Replying to @Karen_karenelee
With you 💯. So sorry about your daughter. As a nurse, and experiencing what you have had to go through, you more than any of these heartless attention seekers, know what you are talking about. Investing in palliative care should be a priority.
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My daughter had pain too, that’s why I say palliative care must be improved in respect of managing pain as well as better social support. From a former nurses’s perspective I don’t think this Bill had enough safeguards to ensure sick & vulnerable people were not driven to suicide
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..I’d just add to this post a word of thanks to those who made a sensible comment to what is an emotive debate. Different people have different opinions. Mine is based on watching my daughter die, I simply feel if palliative care were better we wouldn’t feel suicide is the answer
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I am utterly fed-up of seeing comments about the failure of the assisted suicide Bill. As a nurse of 20 years & a Mum whose daughter died of cancer I opposed it & would fight it with every breath in my body should it ever reappear. Focus instead on improving Palliative care.
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A few days ago yet another health worker suggested perhaps I misunderstood a very unmistakable conversation. I will not be Gaslit. Please sign c.org/WGffbP95Br @BBCBreakfast @nmdacosta @GBNEWS @Togetherdec @joshxhowie @peter_daly @NurseInterruptd @kelvmackenzie
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Before the weekend, I gave my last speech on the last day of the Assisted Dying Bill, which has run out of road. Despite conspiratorial smears about filibustering peers, there were actually lots of fine speeches about the challenges of legislating to allow the state to assist people in taking their own lives. The problem for Kim Leadbeater and Lord Falconer is that they were more interested in parading celebs and winning the media war to bully peers into nodding the Bill through, and also seemed uninterested in winning over critical members of the public or worried disabled people. And just a bloody cheek to blame the Lords for eroding trust in parliament - have they looked at the shenanigans of their own Party/leader?
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This woman has shown no empathy at all for the people with genuine concerns about the potential for harm. No organisation representing the disabled supports the bill. I am very glad I will not have to hear her wittering on anymore.
Kim Leadbeater MP has told Sky News that she is "a mixture of really sad, really upset, and really disappointed" that the proposed assisted dying bill is expected to fail today in its final sitting. Read more: trib.al/TO4VGPw
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Lord Stevens, former Chief Exec of NHS England, categorical that the PMB approach has been an utter failure. "The idea that we should legislate, [when so many hospices announcing cuts], when that is the context, right now seems to me utterly ridiculous".
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