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Government doesn’t manage “the NHS” (maybe it did in 1948 when “the NHS” was founded) but the current “NHS management” (the term implies the NHS is a unitary body which of course it isn’t - hence the quotation marks) has responsibility for all the various day to day functions including training and staff safety issues. Just like Government doesn’t manage for example the day to day running of the military, or education and so on. What Government does do is provide the budget and put in place various things like the legal / regulatory / oversight / purchasing frameworks (this is not an exhaustive list and includes the general legislative framework such as employment laws etc) for all of these state activities. So if, say, a hospital does not meet the required standards then the appropriate oversight body eg the Care Quality Commission will at that point intervene (“special measures” and so on). Otherwise all the day to day stuff (recruitment, training, discipline etc) is the responsibility of the appropriate management structure. And that includes the response - or rather lack of response - to the Stonewall report. Lastly, you say: “Nothing really came from this YouGov survey because, as a society, we don't really take homophobia seriously. So often its excused as someone's religious beliefs or personal views. We have seen a massive rise in homophobic hate crime since the Brexit referendum and yet there has barely any noise about this, outside of the gay media“ which raises some interesting issues but, again, finding a way to deliver services and meet all these various challenges is the responsibility of “NHS management”.

Spycam News update Clo stays cool with some gentle exercises in this hot weather… 🥵

definitely staying away from that Crazy Cat Lady

problem sorted

car repair magazines?!

Thanks for the background. The inadequate staff training you received is a serious failure and my view of most online training is it is often a tick box exercise, a waste of time and done to save money. Sure, poorly delivered training by inexperienced / poor trainers is also a waste of time but that’s also an NHS management failure. And we live in a COVID world - but if COVID is becoming a permanent excuse to avoid returning to proper training by management vetted training companies then problems like this will never be addressed. So if nothing happened following the YouGov survey/report, that suggests the healthcare workers union failed / didn’t want to get involved, and also a serious failure by NHS management. All material issues in business risk reports (and staff safety is a material risk) should contain action plans and timescales agreed with individual managers (copied up the line-management chain), agreed actions to be followed up and verified, and all failures then reported to senior management for appropriate remedial response (senior management actions/responses are then also audited). This is all basic management stuff, so why doesn’t NHS management manage?

I’m genuinely puzzled Your blog, which I carefully read, is almost entirely about serious NHS failures identified in a report and also experienced by you. But now you say that you experience “no homophobia” at work in the NHS, rather there’s a problem with politicians “using prejudice and discrimination to give themselves power”. So why did you ask “How can we say we focus on person-centred care when LGBT staff’s safety is so bluntly ignored by the NHS?”

more wise words from our esteemed BoP …who will be soon be scrutinising the list of candidates for the next enthronement 👑 …and has obviously crossed off the Teddy bear murderer

tennis spots or stripes?

Multicultural Britain means multicultural beliefs and values, and without the support of all the cultures in the UK there would be no NHS. These are inescapable facts.

…honey flavoured mustard

bye bye queenie

tucks the bear in… very tight

bad Clo! …just rescued cute little baby froglet + popped him back in the pond Me good zombie Oops, just missed the fly…

🐻 bear will be safely tucked up in bed now, snoring 💤 so won’t be needing this

wantsies does not mean havesies snatches

hope you have a good flight back … *bad zombie! SMACK!*

sneaky trickster!

The bird of prey 🦅 Controls how we play Evil creatures plot and scheme but the BoP, so serene rewards the good and the green

Tragic news! Titanic II has sunk …fortunately, this time, without loss of life https://youtu.be/cJvexrKjBII factoid #2 Titanic's incredible interior was lost when the ship sank 110 years ago in 1912. Right? Not quite. Parts of the interior still exist because one of Titanic's sister ships, Olympic, survived until 1935 and was fitted out in very similar style and some of its public “spaces” survive, including this first class lounge which was bought at auction (before the ship was scrapped) and then reconstructed at the Swan Hotel in Northumberland, England

poor scared bear!

the joke is, this joke thrift card actually costs more than a regular card

But we rely on you, oh mighty one, for your wisdom and sound decision-making! miscreants will exploit this minor lapse for nefarious purposes! …mentioning no names 🪰 🐧

Ah yes, I’ve just added a comment that clicking the links redirects them to a bogus address but these websites are still up there and the Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity is a legitimate university associated educational organisation and all these resources are freely available Which handily gives us another free bonus factoid - it’s available, but maybe “they” would rather it wasn’t…