John Marwood said:
Mr X said:
In my view, Julie Bailey has caused far more damage than the hospital ever caused itself. The woman has a hell of a lot to answer for. There are ways to solve problems, her way isn't one of them.
You seem to have all the answers without actually sharing them, as well as pointing at a victim who appears to have given an awful lot of herself in order to discover why so much is wrong
Explain yourself or retract
I don't have all the answers, and neither does Julie Bailey. However, I haven't gone around criticising the hospital in every way possible. Unless I've missed something major (possible, as I soon got bored/frustrated with her constant attacks and stopped reading), she has not actually solved the problems.
All she has achieved is getting the hospital national media coverage for the wrong reasons. Yes, she may have uncovered the scandals, but people now have the view that the hospital is bad in every single way.
There are countless staff at the hospital that give everything they can to help the people that need it the most but they have been tarnished with the same brush as the scum who have been in charge of the place. I don't see Bailey giving praise to those who do so much good for so many people. Instead, I see a woman with one (admittedly very bad) experience trying to take it out on as many people as she can and not giving a sh*t about all those who have lost the respect they deserve, and may even lose their jobs.
aged parent said:
Rubbish, without her how many more might have died?
The only and direct cause is bad management pure and simple,
and they would still be hiding the facts from us without Julie Bailey!
Why, though, did she feel the need to go about it in this way? Why couldn't she have approached the right channels to express her concern (eg NHS big wigs, local government etc.)
db said:
agreed.. she was on midlands today shortly after the announcement about the A&E closing, basically saying "good, so it should, cos i've got a cob on about the place and i hope it burns to the ground "
Usual unproductive, non-solution-finding statements, then.
all she has done is help the government scapegoat the hospital.. there are plenty of other hospitals around the country which are suffering (what about that one that has just been taken over by a private company, the name of which escapes me?) - stafford is just an easy one to make an example of..
Scapegoat is the perfect word.
oh, and as mentioned in other threads, i have a lot of experience as a patient at stafford hospital so feel i am just as qualified as her to pass judgement on the place.. i was there yesterday, in fact..
Likewise, I have, and recently have had, family and friends who are currently making regular visits to the hospital and have received care to a very high standard. There are staff working there who give considerably more than what is required of them to help those who are ill. In return, they get the reputation of working at Stafford Hospital. Absolutely criminal.
i don't know, mr x doesn't know, and nor do you.. could be zero, could be a thousand.. your point is hypothetical and irrelevant..
True, nobody will ever know. I suspect that many more would have died had problems not been highlighted. But, as I've already stated, the publicity thanks to Bailey has achieved very little in the scheme of things and has caused problems on a massive scale.