I guess Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley might not wholeheartedly agree such a view, and some affected by the Hillsborough Tragedy too, amongst the many miscarriage of justices listed in Wikipedia. Dont misunderstand me I support active policing but sufficient controls have to be available to ensure such systems are not abused. Those controls will be via internal procedures and audit, plus external audit, just as we have applied to the Intelligence Services.
That's why we have multiple levels in our justice system - the police investigate, CPS decide whether to prosecute, the courts hear both defence and prosecution arguments, the Appeal Court and Supreme Court sit above the ordinary courts and deal with wrongful conviction.
The fundament pillars of our justice system are the professionalism and integrity, of the police in investigating the crime, and the role of the CPS in providing advice to the police during their investigations, deciding if criminal charges can be brought, then prosecuting the case. There will be miscarriages of justice even at the lowers levels of criminal matters, many go no further than the magistrates courts, where appeals can be costly and lengthy to a defendant, hence I doubt they are pursued. Once you get into the higher reaches of our legal system the costs of an appeal are beyond most defendants reach, although some will be supported by charities in the more headline cases.
That's a very slow process which will take a couple of generations to complete at their present rate of progress - there are big practical limitations on the ability of NHS Trusts to transfer patient data to other NHS Trusts.
I also thought this was the case, but sadly it doesn't appear to be so where we are (North West Leicestershire). We lost a friend a few months back, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 12 to 18 months to live. During a biopsy on her lung she contracted sepsis, this was at Burton on Trent hospital, her cancer care was at Leicester, part of this care was that if she needed emergency hospital treatment she had to go back to Leicester. The sepsis was not diagnosed by Burton, they told her to take antihistamines as they thought it was an allergic reaction and sent her home. She was rushed back into hospital and her husband told the ambulance staff about her needing to go to Leicester, but they refused saying that their instructions were to take her to the nearest place. He told them about her records at Leicester dictating that she must go to Leicester and it was then that he was told that they cannot access a patients records from other hospitals.
It is a simple matter for your blood group to be added to your driving licence probably in the form of a code. My blood group was in my South African ID document along with driving licence etc. If they can manage to do it in SA, surely they can manage to do it in the UK?
Blood tests involve a lot more than blood group - in practice emergency blood is given using blood plasma which is suitable for all groups so no big deal (in the UK) that blood group isn't known initially.
Yes it has changed - all driver licence details can be confirmed at roadside. DQ1 is probably obsolete I would think
Not at all! My wife has been an inpatient for 17 days in Wiltshire. Fortunately our GPs are Wiltshire and the computers talk. I believe they also talk to Oxford and Bristol. Elsewhere is a lottery. Circa 2012 Andrew Lansley took a dislike to some of the previous Trusts and set up the NHS Trust Development Authority. The wheel was reinvented, job for the boys and suddenly centralised purchasing disappeared different computer systems, the rest is history and hurting all of us. So with you guys and your wife’s problems you have my greatest concern and sympathy.
I’ve put all my details onto the phone, including meds. My Onlelifeid.com ID wrist strap has a PIN on the reverse side that allows access to my details as recorded on the Onelife website, and on the visible side there are six lines of laser printed information, (name, DoB, allergies yes/no, key medication if any, emergency contacts two)
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