Dept Of Health UK Plays Online Game "Trust Me I Am A Patient"

by Art de Rivers | March 20, 2009 at 04:22 am

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In the wake, and one might say the funeral wake of 400 unexpected deaths at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation NHS Trust you can always go and play a game advertised on the Dept of Health's own website :

"Trust me I am a patient "

So named after the keystone speech by Secretary of State John Reid MP in which he said

And in the coming months I want patients, patient organisations, and NHS staff to contribute to a debate on how we take the next steps forward. 'Trust me, I'm a patient' should be a guiding principle of this new agenda.

and which promised patient empowerment :

So where individual choice is difficult, for example in emergency services, we will empower patients collectively by increasing the accountability of local health services to local communities. That lies at the heart of our proposals for elected boards of NHS Foundation Trusts.

But wherever possible we will empower patients by giving them genuine individual choices - about where, when, how, and by whom they are treated.

It appears someone has thrown a serious wobbly on the game-board .. But then was it a kind of screaming dreaming monopoly anyway despite promises of greater efficiency and choice ?

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