RQIA have been undertaking a formal review of the consequences both direct and indirect of the removal of surgery from our hospital.
That review had the capacity and the funding to carry out a thorough, expert lead review evaluation which should include at its core Patients and Staff – these groups have been adversely affected since the removal of any consultant surgeons at our hospital in December 2022.
We were shocked to read headlines for which stated “there have been no patient safety concerns” – WHSCT Neil Guckian.
We had to investigate to understand how such statements could be made by the Western trust by the Department of Health, the Minister for Health and indeed by the regulator themselves RQIA.
We were equally shocked to realise that there are fundamental changes made to the Terms of Reference RQIA used is now a document with 6 serious changes from the investigation terms of reference. We MUST know why? who? When?
Save Our Acute Services have gone through the opportunity during RQIA Review – and spent hours sincerely reliving and reporting our own family members patient story detail details on these pathways and we are aware that many of you did the same. We are proud of the staff concerns made by members who made contact as we know it was an immensely brave act to do so.
We have summarised in pictures the following major changes.
We identified these concerns and a press conference and were challenged by the Department Of health; words to suggest we were “misinforming” “mistaken” and “misleading”…..
Our data will stand up to scrutiny.
Can we ask you to look and see if the facts which you reported are represented inside the document?
We would ask any of our population who submitted their Patient Stories to RQIA in person or via email or phone call during the investigation to check from page 40 to page 48. Does this adequately represent all of the issues or is your story in your opinion? Are you content that you are represented adequately
We would also ask all Frontline Staff who spoke to RQIA o read from pages 48 in the report and decide if you feel that your voice is adequately listened to and represented accurately when you raised patient safety concerns .
Can we ask you to look and see if the facts which you reported are represented inside the document?
We would ask any of our population who submitted their Patient Stories to RQIA in person or via email or phone call during the investigation to check from page 40 to page 48. Does this adequately represent all of the issues or is your story in your opinion? Are you content that you are represented adequately
We would also ask all Frontline Staff who spoke to RQIA please read from pages 48 in the report and decide if you feel that your voice is adequately listened to and represented accurately when you raised patient safety concerns .
Please communicate with us if are not content.
SOAS.SWAH@gmail.com
