NHS ANNOUNCE EXTERNAL INVESTIGATION

Finally some progress...

Today UHMBT confirmed that NHS Improvement/England has agreed to commission an external investigation into the urology department.

It's not quite the public inquiry which MPs, patients and families have been calling for but at the very least it's some progress.

The only concern about NHSI/E commissioning this review is that in 2017 that very same organisation accepted former UHMBT medical director David Walker's insistence that "everything was fine".

But ultimately, the world will be watching, particularly myself, and I don't doubt that the patients who have come forward to date will make sure that they are involved in the whole process.

This investigation must not leave any stone unturned.

This investigation must not be restricted to the concerns raised in Peter Duffy's book.

This investigation must look into the ongoing issues relating to current employees of UHMBT.

This investigation must delve deeper than the surface and it absolutely must not be based upon any naive assumption that 'lessons have been learned' and that the issues are 'historical'.

There are current patients, including tragically one who has died recently, whose care appears - even to those with no medical background, to have fallen far short than they should have expected.

This investigation is clearly turning a corner but scrutiny must be maintained and intensified to ensure that it is as comprehensive and all-encompassing as it needs to be.

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