Child Protection, away days and Lord Laming’s report and is VIC there?

Is VIC there?


This week we had a scheduled meeting with the finally identified (after many, many months of searching), fully paid up but, totally unaccountable but important Party idiot and elite member of the local Thickerazzi, who had rearranged health visiting in Northernshire using what we shall term the highly successful “Doncaster” model - their words not ours. It is like Haringey child protection only better as it is “world-class” again their words in quotes not ours.

The, totally unaccountable but important Party idiot and elite member of the local Thickerazzi, was unable to attend this meeting. They had to “rush” away to another “important” meeting no doubt in one of the larger shire towns here in Northernshire.

Remember no one ever “goes” to hospital (with their life threatening bunions) they are always “rushed” there.

Likewise with local Politburo commissars where all Party approved meetings are always “very important” as is their avoidance of meetings arranged a long time in advance (because of the importance of Very Important Commissars VICs). It is also essential for their avoidance of responsibility for inaction.

No meeting = no problem identified by the local Party Politburo to paraphrase the originator of current Politburo thinking and (in)action in the UK a certain Joseph Stalin.

Cancellation, at short notice, adds to this avoidance of responsibility and devolves the accountability to their juniors or to those asking for the meeting.

“It can’t have been that important, comrade, or we would have been there . . .”

Nice work if you can get it, comrade VIC, all expenses paid and work avoidance too.

We landed up having a meeting with a junior, but elite member in training of the local Thickerazzi, who was there to “support” (= do nothing) the workers in another profession who care on the front line for patients whose service had been rearranged on similar lines to the “Doncaster/Haringey” model which was failing spectacularly to deliver the previous levels of service that had actually worked.

This NHS “success” had been arranged by the totally unaccountable but important Party idiot and elite member of the local Thickerazzi who just happened to be absent.

Remember “reform” of the health service is the process where if something works it has to be replaced by something that does not and creates in doing so more managers to ensure that less is achieved.

Support is an interesting word in NHS management as it usually means do nothing and if something brown hits the fan then senior NHS managers usually are conspicuous by their absence and get promoted. The grunts on the ground usually get shafted.

The comrade workers being “supported” were duly lined up, in uniform and on parade, as heroes in the Great Patriotic War always are, to show that the local Politburo were (again) in the top twenty of world rankings (we think there may be a silent w or Rossey r missing here) for “world class commissioning”.

The issues that we had wished to discuss with the totally unaccountable but important Party idiot and elite member of the local Thickerazzi are already those that His Lordship Lord Laming has highlighted as child protection failings but the VIC responsible was not there.

They had more important things to do than talk with frontline healthcare professionals called GPs. Our concern was not to miss the next Baby P(eter).

But this was not discussed due to the absence of the totally unaccountable but important Party idiot and elite member of the local Thickerazzi who had created all of the problems.

We know not what they were concerned about but their meeting must have been very, very important?

Praise be to the Party and its numerous and totally unaccountable but important Party idiots and elite members of the local Thickerazzi. These are the people that institute the policies that fail patients so badly.

When concerns are raised and they are finally identified what do they do?

Nothing.

They run away and hide in another meeting. And eventually get promoted. They are important as they do nothing for anyone least of all our children.