Why is Cameron secretive about his Nursing & Care Quality Forum?
8:30 am - February 15th 2012
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On 5th January Cameron visited a hospital, decided it would be a good tactics to be outraged about standards of nursing care, and announced the establishment of a Nursing & Care Quality Forum.
I care a lot about standards of care, so I have followed developments.
First, the health minister told us that the Forum will ”“not be made up of the great and the good, but is actually being made up of frontline staff”.
Then, we were told by the Chief Nursing Officer that “the first meeting of the forum will take place in late February”.
So I asked the Department of Health who was actually going to make up the forum, given that it is due to meet very soon. A press officer told me:
We will be announcing the membership of the forum in the coming weeks.
I have a legitimate interest in who is going to sit on this forum, not least because Cameron has already sought to politicize it by ordering, from a position of total ignorance, that nurses must organise their work in a very particular way.
As I set out in detail here, the jury remains out on whether the “intentional rounding” Cameron is so impressed by will actually be beneficial to patient care in the long run, and it is the height of irresponsibility to seek to impose it in this way.
Why, then, can the Department of Health give me no information on who will sit on this forum? What are they trying to hide?
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Paul Cotterill is a regular contributor, and blogs more regularly at Though Cowards Flinch, an established leftwing blog and emergent think-tank. He currently has fingers in more pies than he has fingers, including disability caselaw, childcare social enterprise, and cricket.
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Why, then, can the Department of Health give me no information on who will sit on this forum? What are they trying to hide?
If there is a choice between a conspiracy and a screw up, always go with the screw up. They probably don’t know. Cameron probably said something that sounded good at the time but which is more complex in reality and which no one wants. So everyone is dragging their feet, waiting for it to die a natural death from boredom.
More likely than that they have anything to hide.
‘What are they trying to hide?’ Why, that will be hordes of angry health-care professionals brandishing pitchforks!
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