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    As someone who works with NHS and actually as a Mental Health and Physical Health patient I've experienced discrimination and out right assault by the police whilst in hospital and ended up under S136 for no valid reason. Although I was assaulted with handcuffs being thrown over the bed rail, breaking my wrist I think. Still not had my mangled wrist xrayed 2 months on. Nothing worse than being in a vulnerable situation and bullies absolutely thrive on people in vulnerable positions. Their bosses think they're wonderful and so kind but they are in a position of power so of course the bully treats them differently or act differently when seniors are around. I recently put in a formal complaint to CEO I knew very well but instead of replying (after I told her I had recordings) she completely blanked me and now retired. Instead of "this is very serious Dominic, please send any evidence etc" I get told "how wonderful" my bully is! Interim CEO took over so I must inform him of Duty of Candour (Robbies Law) too. They don't seem to like that being pointed out but I shall do it anyway in hope we get a decent CEO who isn't just a pencil pusher waiting for band 9 pension. If as a volunteer I've experienced what I have, I dread to think what goes on as full members of staff. What struck me was the impunity these bullies operate with once in band 8 or above roles. You'd be very shocked if you heard what myself and four other service users went through. At the time my bullies refused to apologise (even though she received "disaplinary action") For me bulling and cronyism are both rotting the NHS from the inside out and needs sorting ASAP Please don't get me wrong, I support 99% of NHS staff but I cannot ignore the bullying, certainly at directorate or managerial level. The small percentage who do bullies seem to have no self awareness and those under them seem to think bullying behaviour is just "Leadership" Well no leader worth any salt will abuse you or tell you who you can and cannot speak too. Seeing service users slowly driven out by a particular bullie was extremely hard and not one manager wanted to know (bar one kind soul). Leadership means you MUST act whenever you even sniff the types of behaviours that signal a bully, however things are that bad that management cannot or won't recognise the controlling and mean behaviours Thanks for reading my first post
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    I'm ashamed to say I didn't know all this but then it can be tough just getting my teeth cleaned some days. Steve, you've done some incredible work here and so has Will clearly. No small feat to get that Duty of Candour through but I understand now much better why that is insufficient and we absolutely need to bang the drum on this one. I remember my Dad getting investigated by GMC over false claims. It nearly destroyed him with stress but I know he wouldn't have had it any other way as Dad absolutely believed in accountability and I know how frustrated he would get over wrongdoing or stupidity. I feel we need to follow up our Dark Jedi chat with another on Duty of Candour and highlight this loophole. We did actually cover it but I feel we really need to promote awareness of this issue further. Thanks for being a HCP with absolute integrity, genuine compassion and committed to this just cause. I'm sorry for your loss Will. If you read this, I'd like to thank you (and Steve) for making Duty of Candour happen, just need to fix that loophole next. We will get there, just needs the good eggs to work together and never give up Dom 😊
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    Great blog Steve, I must check out those links at the bottom too. Definitely must book that video chat on prescribing. Still want to do blog counter argument over use of opioids long term. However I do hope Medical Cannabis is embraced as I know that could reduce amount of opiods needed for quality of life. I'm a libertarian and believe as long as we are given the facts and any warnings, then it should be upto the Patient to choose what medication they put into their bodies! So sick of hearing people having opiods cut to zero and not a thing to replace them. They are treated and thought of as addicts. One was even put on an even more toxic synthetic opiod Methadone. From experience I know how addictive that stuff is. Taking prescribing decisions away from the patients just infantilises them and creates an even bigger problem, just off the radar!
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