Supporting Principle : GO GO GO GO PETITION - Margaret Haywood De-registered Nurse Latest

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The Nursing Midwifery Council who de-registered Margaret Haywood (nurse) after she tried to solve problems in her hospital and could not, and who then helped the BBC to do that should start thinking about their own positions .

They have brought themselves into disrepute . They have made a bad mistake and misjudged the public interest and the current leadership is just untenable .. We at UserWatch say : get rid of them ..

Its likely by the end of today or early tommorrow the Margaret Haywood petition will gain 30000 signatures .. We at UserWatch do not think it will stop there .

A lot of the NHS is rotten with perverse over-control - tongue clamping - and lack of truer transparency - you'll be lucky to get information easily about Serious Untoward Incidents at Hospitals who as a whole and particluarly after Foundattion Status have clamped down on information-giving and now its a case of using the Freedom Of Information Act for what should be easily available - instead though its bureaucratically guarded - how ridiculous .. NHS UK : From Public Service to a quasi Secret Service .

Support for whistleblowing nurse struck off by NMC

25060 Signatures

Published by Rachel Dufton on Apr 17, 2009

Category: Health

Region: United Kingdom

Target: General public and members of the nursing profession

Web site: http://www.rcn.org.uk

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Re-instate Margaret Haywood Nurse - Petition Horse Gallops On Through Time

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The Petition Gallops on Through Time

The petition to reinstate Margaret Haywood the Whistleblowing Nurse who exposed problems on a ward and helped the BBC film conditions at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton because no-one was listening- highlights the serious underlying battle between the State and the public . Do we have a public service truly viewable by the public rather than "clever" appointees, or do we have a secret service that wants to overly control the public point of view ?

LATEST NO's FROM PETITION HERE

A poster "Mary Nolze" on NowPublic.com expresses a lot of sense to the UK audience who may come here and its worth considering :

"I agree with the previous comments. I think it is a good idea though as well as signing the petition and talking about it on the net, to write a good old fashioned strongly worded letter to the NMC on good old writing paper, putting all the argument but stressing the total loss of faith that the public have in the corporate, manager driven NHS with its lack of humanity except at the lowest levels.

The NMC has got to show that it cares at ward level otherwise they will be seen as a redundant "jobs for the boys" Quango of the worst kind, which come the revolution ( which I don't really look forward to!) will be swept aside.

We simply cannot afford to carry this sort of prestigiuous body unless they have true courage and moral values. This is what I am doing now."

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Re-instate Margaret Haywood Nurse - Petition Flames On

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PETITION UPDATE

10000 - yep that's Ten Thousand have signed the petition to re-register and reinstate Margaret Haywood the whistleblowing nurse .

Wow ...

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Margaret Haywood De-registered Nurse Petition Gallops Toward 6000

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This petition is a galloping one and is likely to hit 6000 by late tonight ... It has seized the feelings and imaginations of people who are pissed off with idiot-authority and realise Margaret Haywood whistleblew and helped the BBC film conditions at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton because no-one was listening . The tosspot idea of booting (de-registering) Margaret Haywood and lifetime banning her for breach of patient confidentiality as the Nursing and Midwifery Council did was crazy and does nothing to understand her double bind and the public will in this matter.

All the patients the BBC and Margaret Haywood filmed allowed her to show the truth about the ward they were on . This is case of the system and those who play within it using confidentiality to utterly cripple accountability as usual .. Patient's may well be tactically advised to give advance permission notices to nurses and media to act for their best interests because the NMC has lost that point, and so did the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton...

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Petition For Nurse Margaret Haywood's Re-instatement Goes Past 2000

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In less than a day the petition to reinstate NHS UK whistleblowing Nurse Margaret Haywood has gone past 2000 - from the rate of signature increase we have observed it looks set to climb into the many thousands .

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The Margaret Haywood - Whistle Blower Nurse Petition Passes 1000

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The petition supporting Margaret Haywood the nurse who blew the whistle on the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton that ignored her concerns regarding conditions for patient's and who later the Nursing Medical Council struck off hit 1000 earlier - last night it was 507 when we viewed it . It appears the public are getting the spreading word and we will update on this .

Links :

Whistleblowing nurse faces further NMC charges over covert filming for BBC documentary

BBC defends undercover nurse as NMC probes confidentiality breach

Supporting The NHS-Crushed-Right To Whistleblow - Re-instate Margaret Haywood !

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[UserWatch Team : An attack on Margaret Haywood the struck off Nurse is an attack on all of us - her case matters for mental health too where Trusts Managers and top staff are like Mafia Bosses . The public cannot see in enough into the NHS anymore and the need for Public Blindness by NHS top staff is bad signal that all is not right. It isn't right - large illusions are practiced in the new name of "reform" and "modernisation" . Bullshit public and selected patient involvement that is paper thin will not create a people orientated system of patient choice in the NHS .. ]

From Art De Rivers NowPublic.Com

Margaret Haywood a nurse of many years experience tried to alert the hospital authorities about the condition in the wards so she satisfied crucial parts of the UK "Whistleblowers Act " drafted as the : Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998

"Margaret Haywood, 58, received a lifetime ban from nursing for misconduct after filming the neglect of elderly patients for a BBC Panorama documentary.

The senior nurse broke down in tears after the judgement last week and said she was "absolutely devastated" by the panel's decision."

People in the UK are rallying to the right to whistleblow and they are supporting Margaret Haywood calling for her to be re-instated - it seems people are waking up in the UK to the way the NHS practices concealment of poor management in the name of "reform" .

"After the hearing on Thursday, the nurse referred to recent stories of NHS failure: "Look at recent things that have been happening, especially with the Mid-Staffordshire hospital, nurses are afraid to speak out. The whole process needs to be reviewed so nurses can voice their concerns."

Hundreds of NHS staff have protested about Miss Haywood's treatment. She is considering appealing against the decision by the Council, which has already received hundreds of emails and phone calls from nurses furious about the ruling.

Now the Royal College of Nursing has launched a petition and Facebook group supporting Miss Haywood for exposing poor patient care."

A petition is underway HERE

So far the petition has 509 signatures and it looks set to increase on a wave of new awareness that managers in the NHS and the "modernised" culture of it often colludes to create a context in which poor practice can be swept under the poor health carpet and those that see the dirt and speak up get targeted..

That is not healthy, its a perversion of the idea of healthiness and conscious regard for flaws that must be solved . Underlying all this is a culture of bullying and fear in the NHS . Nurses need to blow the whistle on that and point back to where it begins.

From Go Petition.com :


"Background (Preamble): This petition is for members of the nursing profession and the general public who want to show their support for nurse Margaret Haywood. Margaret was struck off the nursing register by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for taking part in a television programme which highlighted instances of poor patient care. We believe that Margaret was justified in exposing the worrying conditions at her hospital and that the documentary shed light on matters that the public deserved to know about.


Petition: We, the undersigned, wish to show our support for nurse Margaret Haywood who raised issues of concern around poor patient care. We believe that Margaret was justified in exposing the worrying conditions at her local hospital and that the NMC was wrong to strike her off the nursing register. "