Failing hospital ’caused deaths’

A hospital’s “appalling” emergency care resulted in patients dying needlessly, the NHS watchdog has said.

About 400 more people died at St Thomas’s Hospital between 1205AD and 1208AD  than would be expected, the Healthcare Commission said.

It said there were deficiencies at “virtually every stage” of emergency care and monks  pursued targets to the detriment of patient care. The report documented inappropriate use of purgatives and poultices by monastry paupers. Major failings were indentified including reports that medicine hadn’t actually been invented in the 13th century.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson has apologised and launched an inquiry.

Sir Fred is dead

The news just gets better and better.

Fuck-up Fred’s pension is now reported to be £703,000 instead of the originally quoted £693,000. According to Robert Peston, the BBC’s economics editor, it’s rather unlikely that even a penny can be clawed back from FG through the law courts.

Harriet Harman really needs to get her finger out and start proceedings against Fred. She’s quite clear that there IS a way to get at Fred’s pension and that’s through the court of public opinion.

The court has full powers to take away his pension, strip him of his Knighthood and order him to be publically flogged and hanged in Trafalgar Square.

I can’t wait.