Re: Non-emergency '999' service to have 10p charge


"Cynic" <cynic_999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:32:34 +0100, "Uno Hoo!"
> <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Apples and oranges. Shipman was a *single* rogue GP. Nobody has
>>> attempted to ajustify his actions. People do not believe that there
>>> is any great possibility of another GP behaving similarly.
>>
>>Well, let's talk about the health service in general. There have been a
>>fair
>>few cases of nurses also prematurely despatching the elderly or sick, one
>>such case ongoing in my area at the present time. Have we all lost trust
>>in
>>the health service?
>
> Have you heard a senior member of the health service announce that the
> policy is basically a good one, that the nurses cannot be faulted for
> their actions, and that similar incidents will no doubt happen again?
>
> Did the CPS refuse to prosecute any of those nurses?
>
> Did their employer send them off on a holiday to get over their
> trauma?

You cannot compare the two. Nurses do not have the authority to kill -
police officers do. The action by the nurses is deliberate - the action by
the officers is deliberate but mistaken. No-one asks nurses to kill -
society asks police officers to kill.

Kev


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