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Interesting observation Jac – my research into wrongdoing in the NHS and social services has taught me never to dismiss such things as coincidence. There are very powerful networks in place and they tend to explain how certain people have ended up in certain jobs, particularly if those jobs involve ignoring or concealing wrongdoing. At the highest level they explain the arrival of certain talentless people who have made bugger all positive impact on the world into the House of Lords.

I’ve never heard of Magna Housing, but now that you’ve mentioned it I shall make enquiries.

It’s a strange coincidence that Peat was CEO of Tai Cymru before becoming Ombudsman, and that today’s Ombudsman, Nick Bennett, was CEO of the successor body to Tai Cymru, Community Housing Cymru.

I very much doubt that changing the Ombudsman would help Jac, Wales seems to have a long and glorious tradition of appointing corrupt bastards as Public Service Ombudsman. I tangled with the appalling Adam Peat, who was Ombudsman between 2003 and 2008. After I was refused treatment for a serious illness at Ysbyty Gwynedd and was effectively left to die – as well as being assaulted by a charge nurse and three nursing assistants – I went to Adam Peat after getting nowhere at all with the CEO of the North West Wales NHS Trust, Keith Thomson. The consultant that nearly killed me had such a high death rate among his patients that it showed up as a statistical outlier on a UK wide basis. But no, according to Thomson I – and even my lawyer – were malicious liars smearing the good name of Ysbyty Gwynedd. So I went to Adam Peat who maintained that he was not going to uphold my complaint. Prior to that I had a telephone conversation with his sidekick – I think he was a Gareth or a Gethin or a Geraint – who was remarkably aggressive and ended up threatening me. My lawyers eventually took Keith Thomson to the High Court to force him to hand over medical notes that he was withholding. There were stacks of documents demonstrating criminal activity on the part of NHS staff and managers. Peat now has an OBE along with numerous other crooks of this parish and is Chairman of Magna Housing – they have an all singing and dancing website but its very unclear what they actually do and where their dosh comes from. A job for you there Jac? Peat was a senior civil servant with the National Assembly of Wales between 1998-2003 and before that Chief Exec of Tai Cymru, ‘responsible for funding and regulating the housing association movement in Wales’. I notice Magna Housing are ‘positive about disabled people’, as indeed was the North West Wales NHS Trust. Whilst Thomson was Chief Exec of the Trust, a young woman with severe epilepsy was admitted on a bank holiday – there was no senior doctor on call because Thomson had refused to pay for that level of cover and the junior doctors and nurses on duty didn’t know how to manage her epilepsy. A serious drugs error was made and the young woman was left in a vegetative state. Thomson was obviously so positive about disabled people that he created them.
The mess that Thomson made led to the havoc that reigns in the Betsi today. I had yet another serious complaint about the Betsi a few months ago. It has not been addressed or dealt with or even fully investigated. No I don’t have the time or the energy to now go to another Ombudsman who will not do anything, I am instead using the incriminating documents that my lawyer acquired to blog about the whole sorry NHS and name those responsible. I really do think that it is the only thing that the citizen can do. If I cannot get these bastards to investigate when their staff have broken the law – I have a PhD and have published on health policy – how on earth is an elderly lady or gent supposed to take them on when the NHS has killed their spouse (which has happened on a number of occasions in the NHS in north Wales…)

Changing the Ombudsman would also help, for the current holder of the post is failing to do his job, being part of the system himself.

Jennifer – you are quite correct in stating that our ‘representatives’ are silenced too easily. During my research into wrongdoing and abuse in medicine I discovered that NO party will take it on. It is unrelated to their political ideologies or whether they favour a state funded NHS or privatised service – politicians will not take on doctors who are abusing their positions. They know damn well that its going on because they are approached by their constituents who have been damaged at the hands of medicine but they will walk away from those constituents every time – they also fail to support the few very brave doctors like Sian who speak out about their colleagues wrongdoing. So the Sians of the world find that their careers comes to a stop. There will be many more Mid-Staffs and Ian Patersons because UK medicine is actually in a very bad way due to serious wrongdoing remaining unchallenged for decades. There is also a substantial problem with corrupt medical experts giving evidence in court that is leading to miscarriages of justice. But at every single election ALL parties cave in to whatever the BMA are demanding. It does not say very much about the integrity of our elected representatives.