The parents of Alice Figueiredo, the woman who took her own life in 2015 aged 22, have delivered a heartbreaking statement after the the NHS Trust which was looking after her (North East London Foundation NHS Trust) and a ward manager were found guilty of health and safety failings. Alice’s stepfather said:
“We have seen numerous inquests into deaths at trusts like now over decades after which the NHS trusts promise but failed to deliver safe patient care, the errors often the same ones repeated over and over again needless debts continue relentlessly to this day the claims of lessons learned are just well, worn empty rhetoric meaningless and hollow with government health care commissioners and regulators just failing to hold these trusts to account. Mr streeting if you’re listening today you need to hold these trust managers to account.”
Streeting will be trying to force the NHS to pay close attention to this tragic case…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”