DO NO HARM 06/16/2010
 Do No Harm' - the words that Dr Ubani did not adhere to when on his first out-of-hours GP cover in England. By his own admission Dr Ubani, who had only arrived in England the day before the death of David Gray, has admitted that fatigue led to Mr Grays death. In 2008 Dr Ubani had given 70-year-old David Gray 20 times the recommended amount of diamorphine to treat pain in his kidneys. Dr Ubani had been given an induction pack containing advice that it would almost never be appropriate to give doses of diamorphine higher than 30mg. An expert in out-of-hours services, Dr Mark Reynolds, told the inquest into David Grays death “I believe this tragedy was ultimately caused by the differences in training and experience of Dr Ubani to that of Doctors in England”. It seems Dr Ubani never bothered to consult his induction pack. A top-level report claims NHS trusts in England have been failing to carry out proper checks on GPs brought in to provide out-of-hours cover The top level report also stated that there are many challenges faced by foreign doctors who fly in to do night and weekend cover, such as seeing patients they are not familiar with or proper access to their medical records, and that doctors from within the EU are not having their clinical skills or their competence in English assessed because of EU laws. Meanwhile doctors from outside the EU have to sit an exam set by the General Medical Council There are unacceptable variations in the standard of out-of-hours care offered by Primary Care Trusts (PCT's) around England who are responsible for the services. PCT's buy in the services from private firms, GP co-operatives and in-house teams. Most of these providers do not assess the clinical skills of the staff they employ. The majority had a very lazy approach when assessing clinical staff. They did not use clinical scenarios when interviewing foreign doctors some didn’t even request references or if they did any that were not returned were not pursued for a reason why. Doctor Ellie Cannon works for a English inner-city out-of-hours co-operative personally welcomed the scrutiny that is now been given to the out-of-hours service in England since the tragic death of David Gray. Dr Cannon said that compassion and sense had been replaced with performance and targets and meeting those targets are one of the reasons why people in England have to put up with being treated by foreign doctors at night and weekends. The new GP contract brought in by the British government for GP's in England is a target driven contract. Shifts are paid by the hour, calls must be answered within a certain time frame and most worrying of all, doctors have a number of visits they have to undertake in a six hour shift. Each shift is not measured by quality but quantity and they have to prove they are performing well or the PCT contracts are taken away, so they have to fill all out-of-hour shifts. This means getting doctors from outside England, even if it means getting doctors who find English difficult to speak let alone understand, even if it means losing a patient along the way, not to worry it’s only the people in England who are suffering under this system and to a British government the people of England don’t matter at all. BACK TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  SAVING THE PLANET NEEDN'T BE SO TAXING How hypocritical are the world’s leaders that gathered in Copenhagen to discuss climate change? They fly to Copenhagen in practically half empty aircraft, use large gas guzzling limousines to travel around and no doubt consume vast amounts of food that has clocked up thousands of food miles. So much for really caring about the environment! The English Radical Alliance believes that in the technological age in which we now live, this, and many other international conferences, could be carried out by video conferencing. This would be more environmentally friendly and allow politicians to stay in their own country should an emergency occur there. However the world’s leaders would then have to do without the substantial perks attending international conferences bring! We are not going to enter the climate change slanging match which currently exists. The evidence states that global warming is a natural phenomenon and history shows the Vikings were on the move from Scandinavia in the 9th & 10th centuries because rising sea levels were flooding their agricultural heartlands. At the same time evidence also shows that that mankind has had some impact upon climate change. The English Radical Alliance distances itself from this argument. We want a cleaner and greener world and our own environmental policies and unequaled investment in research and development into green technology would deliver this and create an eco-friendly industrial revolution for England. We could then export this technology across the world, which would be good for the English economy and beneficial to the future of the planet. This is common sense. Compare this to the hypocrisy of the government and the other parties. How eco-friendly is it to allow the privatised train companies to price people out of carriages and back into cars? How eco-friendly is it to allow large supermarket chains such as Tesco and Asda to destroy local shops? How eco-friendly is it to talk about the environment and creating jobs in new technologies and then support globalisation and flooding the English market with imported products manufactured using severe environmentally damaging forms of production? How eco-friendly is it to look at our emissions and think the best way of lowering these is to ship endless tons of plastic across the world to China where it is burnt, thus keeping our emissions lower but still polluting the atmosphere? The words spoken and promises made at Copenhagen by our politicians are cheap, the taxes we will all have to pay as a result of it will not be so cheap! Many of those that generally do care about the environment often turn to the Green Party. Yet the Greens are also a party of eco-hypocrites with policies that seem to want us to do everything short of returning to the Stone Age in order to save the planet. However the Greens are reluctant to tackle many of the social problems that contribute to damaging the environment and believe in uncontrolled mass immigration! How green is it to want England to be swamped with more car driving immigrants with more of our green and pleasant land being buried beneath bricks and mortar to house them? The answer not very green at all! As mentioned earlier the English Radical Alliance has a practical, common sense approach to saving the planet. Regrettably all the other parties do not share our common sense approach. They look at climate change and just see it as another way of raising taxes from an already heavily burdened taxpayer. The English Radical Alliance are not hypocrites. We will not bury our heads and ignore climate change like others and we will not make impossible and unnecessary sacrifices as the Greens would like us to do. We oppose globalisation, as this is driving many English companies, particularly in small manufacturing industries, out of business and at the same time increasing pollutants into our atmosphere. We favour economic protectionism and support for local economies. This would give preference to home produced and often local goods. The English Radical Alliance does not favour taxation as a way to a greener and cleaner land. After all where have these green taxes been spent? Probably on bailing out a bank and paying bonuses to failed financial executives or lavish fittings for MP’s residences. We favour investment in green technology, making England the world leader in this new field. Under Labour we have merely dipped our toes in the water of this emerging industry and under the Tories it would be no different. With this toe dipping approach we shall forever be a follower and not a leader, and we shall continue to import goods and technology from abroad at the cost of English jobs. If England was to invest in the research, development and production of green technology, the technology of tomorrow, this would herald a new industrial revolution for our country. It would create jobs and business opportunities and at the same time contribute to the greener and cleaner world we all want without taxpayers having to pay the burden. The other parties only talk about the environment. Only the English Radical Alliance has the green policies and will to deliver. BACK TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  NEW LABOUR SURRENDERS TO BNP Amidst all of the headlines surrounding the appearance of BNP’s Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time, the one subject that was overlooked was the way in which the Labour Party, under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been complicit in creating the monster that is the BNP, firstly by abandoning the white, working class citizens of the urban estates and, secondly, by allowing uncontrolled, and often illegal, immigration into England over the past ten years. For decades the Labour Party took its grassroots working class electorate for granted; how many of us have heard the old saying that ‘you could stick a red rosette on a poodle and it would get elected around here’? (And how true, look at Tony Blair!). Think about how the chattering classes love to praise MPs such as Frank Field for his ‘radical mind’ but whose Birkenhead constituency remains one of the poorest in Europe. There is no coincidence in linking poverty with the presence of a Labour candidate in Parliament (and one who is probably ripping off the taxpayer while he, or she, is there), these people believe that they don’t have to perform to get elected, just wear a red rosette. Sadly for Labour that attitude has now got Labour in bother, they’ve been rumbled, and to such an extent that now a party that once met every April 20th to pay homage to their dead Fuhrer is actually ousting Gordon Brown’s shambles of a party from its heartlands. Yes, that’s how badly the Labour Party has let down its core voters, the people who once relied upon the party to take their part and stand up for their concerns. But then this is the Labour Party that denies cancer drugs to patients and forces the disabled to look for work, whilst pouring billions of pounds into propping-up the bankers. This is the Labour Party that takes the country to war, illegally, but then fails to provide the servicemen and women with modern protective vehicles and equipment, argues about the amount of compensation they get when they’re wounded, and condemns their families to live in squalid housing. And, above all, this is the Labour Party whose leading members employ illegal immigrants as servants and yet think this is nothing worse than a traffic fine, or hire porn films at the taxpayers expense. For twelve years the Labour Party has been on a quest to attract Tory voters, believing all of that time that it could take its working class vote for granted. It’s far easier to offer low taxes to people in return for quick votes than actually deal with the real problems of the NHS, unemployment, crime, and environmental concerns, all of which cost money. Yes, low taxes so that people have more money to pay for cheap goods that are made overseas by child-labour, whilst our NHS, police and public transport system is starved of investment. But, of course, only those at the poorer end of society use the NHS and public transport, and the same people are the ones who are abandoned to high-crime council estates, or lawless city centres, policed by CCTV and Crimewatch. Far worse than any previous Tory regime, Labour is guilty of creating an unbalanced society where the rich get richer, and the poor have no hope of bettering themselves, except by crime, winning the lottery, or appearing on X-Factor. And it is this culture of despair that has opened the way for the BNP. The English Radical Alliance believe that the Labour Party is dead, and that the advent of Cameron’s Tory regime will create the groundswell for social and political upheaval. The BNP has nothing but negative values to offer the people of England, and we expect their bubble to burst in the coming years. ERA offers a radical alternative and we will step forward in the near future to show that we are the Party of England. CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  1 Comment | ArchivesApril 2012 CategoriesAll |
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