(not satire – it’s the Daily Telegraph!)
Meet Laura Donnelly – the Daily and Sunday Telegraph’s Health Correspondent.
Donnelly was responsible for the Telegraph’s appalling article today trying to blame the NHS for the tragic death of a baby from contaminated drips when it was in fact a private company which was responsible:
Daily Telegraph uses death of baby and outright lies to smear NHS
In fact, Donnelly seems to be on a one-woman campaign to smear the NHS.
Nothing of course to do with her “news“paper’s long term support of the selling off of the NHS to private companies.
Here for example are just a few of Laura’s recent health ‘articles‘ in the Telegraph:
NHS hospital pays finance chief rates of £600,000 a year
NHS breaks promise after staff tortured disabled at Winterbourne View
If NHS were an airline, planes would always be crashing, warns Mid Staffs inquiry chief
NHS chiefs received free travel and hotel stays
NHS chiefs’ expenses: top executives paid five times the basic rate for train tickets
NHS chiefs’ expenses: ‘astounding’ spending exposed
NHS needs ‘radical change’ in the wake of scandals
Rising numbers of hospital patients sent home in the midst of night
Doctor: ‘I warned scandal hospital years ago but was brushed off’
NHS faces £20m bill for sacked doctor Raj Mattu
Families angry surgeons still working for NHS despite deaths of five patients
NHS blunders put millions of records at risk
Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS
The number of anti-NHS articles written by Donnelly really is astounding. All of those articles above were penned by her in just the last month or so alone.
Where are all the articles by Connelly criticising the numerous scandals around private companies involved in healthcare?
Well, there aren’t any.
That’s because Donnelly is not a journalist.
She’s a paid propagandist.
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This is my first article targeting individual journalists – instead of just the institutions themselves – for the sickeningly unprofessional political partisanship of the UK press.
There will be more.
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
Daily Telegraph uses death of baby and outright lies to smear NHS
Thinktank proposing monthly fee for NHS is funded by private healthcare companies
UKIP deputy leader calls for end of NHS
Shirley Williams’ bare-faced lies to her Lib Dem colleagues on the NHS
Meet the NHS patient representative who seems to have a problem with women
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Whore: no more no less. Selling herself for money and favors, not just sex – there is no explanation of some peoples sex., partisan bit with the party.
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Let’s all hope doesn’t become sick and disabled and become reliant on the NHS, I’d make the bitch pay anyway.
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The NHS is smeared because in law people doing something wrong individually cannot be sacked.
Victims and family have to sue the whole NHS after a sometimes fatal event.
No whole hospital commits poor care.
Personnel (aka Human Resources) have the system called Competency under discipline measures for staff who cannot do a job.
Either the individual needs further training or redeployed into another role.
It is politicians who never use the NHS, who have passed law that means someone has to sue the whole NHS, instead of just getting that one person doing the poor care to do things right. Prevention, not making a law firm rich.
The private company in this case might, in a just world, had its directors sued under corporate manslaughter as they have duty of care for a safe product.
But what is the betting that the law says the grieving parents have to sue the NHS not the private company? Don’t know, but prevention is better than cure, as they say.
Until law changes, so that individual staff can be prevented at an early stage from poor care practice, before life is lost, then we have this political football that is the NHS.
The NHS is amongst the biggest employer in Europe and not every person is in the right job.
This shows that politicians cannot run the NHS, nor can pass effective law around it.
Yet a politician, like all however rich, all have to rely on the NHS for emergency ambulance and care. So everyone actually relies on the NHS.
The NHS is life or death stuff and so naturally generates strong emotion.
The NHS is keeping me alive right now.
The Daily Telegraph may want private medicine, but even the richest man still needs the NHS for emergency care for heart failure or car or works accident, or fire in the home causing life threatening injury.
Why is there law that says you can sue individual medical professionals in private hospitals, but not in the NHS?
How can a NHS office worker be liable for what a medical professional does direct to a patient, when they were not present nor have the medical knowledge?
You can see the ineptitude of a remote and wealthy elite of our political class in many other organisations in the public sector, with guidelines and laws passed by MPs. Why not the NHS?
Give us the patients and families the law to get rid of poor staff before they hurt a patient and threaten the NHS as it is they who are doing, not the Daily Telegraph. Who cares about newspaper in print barely anyone reads? Newspapers are a thing of the past.
My Tory MP (yes we’re stuck with him, because surrounded by rich villagers) has a Support the local NHS hospital sticker in his town centre’s Tory party branch office, to fend off the enraged mob of the town.
Will Labour change the law so poor staff can be easily sacked?
Then we end the spectacle of a whole hospital being thought guilty of poor care, when one person alone did it?
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private hospital endangers children : sedated children left in parents arms preoperatively in theatres at risk of suffocating
private hospital endangers patients : theatre nurses fail to follow doctors instructions leaving people in critical condition
private hospital endangers patients : large (1 foot long) theatre implements left under patients post operatively
private hospital sacks whistle blowing member of staff. (all one hospital)
private hospitals endangers patients : private intensive care units unable to care for patients having heart attacks , instead call 999 to transfer to NHS.
Many staff (NHS and private) are afraid to speak up due to bullying and bad management. When I was nursing I flagged up several cases of dangerous misconduct but they were brushed under the carpet. Yes mistakes happen especially after working 11-12 hours working (12.5hr shifts are now common place). But gross incompetence in inexcusable. There are already disciplinary procedures for dealing with these issues they just need to be followed rigorously. Personally think any allegation should be investigated by an external source to prevent misuse of power.
I have used a different id for this post as could have ramifications for me and others.
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She probably has shares in private medicine providers.
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Reblogged this on amnesiaclinic and commented:
Excellent! Please share around. Some brilliant ideas for moving forward.
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“She’s a paid propagandist.” – Who is she being paid by?
Where are all the articles by Tom Pride criticising the Labour Party?… Well, there aren’t any.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
It really isn’t surprising that Donnelly is a paid propagandist for the privatisation of the NHS, when you consider that the Telegraph is so right-wing it got the name Torygraph from Private Eye. As for printing propaganda, well, I believe it was either Beaverbrook or Rothermere, who made no secret of the fact: ‘I print propaganda, propaganda, and propaganda’. So too do the Barclay twins, and Murdoch.
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https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=37463599
This is Donnelly’s profile on LinkedIn where apparently, she has no history apart from the Torygraph.
She will do “specialist speaking” (…er.. yes….?) as seen here:
http://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=558
In it we find she’s been at the Torygraph (or should that now be UKIPgraph?) since 2006, have previously worked here:
http://www.hsj.co.uk/# (HSJ is published by EMAP who are joint owned by the Grauniad and a venture capital outfit)
Going back through her articles, it is clear to me that she has been “got at”.
Her earlier articles are patient focussed in the main – later, especially in the past year or so, the word “NHS” seems to have been in almost every headline, and almost every headline is saying bad, bad, bad.
In short Tom, she is like you said,
She has been got at by the Barclay Bros who own the torygraph, want to buy everything and pay tax on nothing. They want the NHS destroyed and they want to own the bones of it.
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Hi FinkFurst
1) I don’t pretend to be a journalist.
2) This blog doesn’t pretend to be a newspaper
3) I’m not paid.
Any questions?
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Yes… two, one of which I asked before:
1) Who is she being paid by?
2) Do you regard yourself as an unpaid propagandist?
FinkFurst:
[1) She is being paid by a newspaper to write news – not propaganda. The clue’s in the word ‘news’paper
2) I am a political satirist.
This blog is an “irreverent look at UK politics by Tom Pride”.
Unlike Laura and the Telegraph, nowhere does it pretend to be news.
It’s not rocket science. I’m not arguing that butter is right and margarine is wrong. I’m arguing that margarine is wrong if it pretends to be butter
And Laura is a big pot of slippery, oily, cheap margarine pretending to be wholesome butter.] – TOM
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Ah… you used the word slippery! Perhaps if I ask question 2 in a different way you might answer it. Do you ever write propaganda? I’m not saying there is anything wrong with doing so. The definition is below in case you need it.
…and I could have sworn your blogpost implied that she was being paid by somebody in addition to the Torygraph, but maybe it was just my imagination!
By the way, how many ‘news’ papers of any political persuasion could you name which do NOT publish “Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view”? You live in the real world too…… I hope!
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This needs to be exposed, and the rats driven out of their holes. This is a good start.
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you beat me to it barry.
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Not shares: sleeping partner: attack/projection and dissociation are better than defense at keeping secrets.
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Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating.
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finkfirst how do know your not payed propagandist.
you might be payed to post here for all we know.
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Tom – When you write “not satire”, are you still being a political satirist? If not, how would you describe what you’re doing? It looks like journalism and smells like journalism, so is it actually journalism?
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You don’t know, all you can do is judge me by what I say. Having said, that if you can think of anyone who would conceivably pay me for this then you’re far smarter than me!
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Tom – The thing I find strangest is that if you were enthusiastic and confident about what you do, then debate would be easy, but it’s like pulling teeth!
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I’d pay FinkFirst to shut the fook up and not post on any blogs at all except his own – if he has one.
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Not a person who could be trusted to tell the truth, but then again, do any of them? She’s a journalist who writes what she is told, not what she actually wants to say – that’s how it comes across to me…
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
It the torygraph, so it’s full of sh*t anyway…
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Really? How much?
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came across this:
Health Service Journal
Laura Donnelly on honesty and political risks
1 January, 2007 | By Laura Donnelly
Looks like she doesn’t know what honesty is but is happy to espouse political rhetoric for her own purposes
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The NHS has always been a media target. Easy when it is often in the business of life and death. Things were hardly likely to improve quickly post mid-Staffs. Human interest stories are the holy grail for journalists and their editors. The NHS is a 24/7 purveyor of human interest stories that are renewed on a frequent basis.
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“There will be more.”
Oh, come on! Dish the dirt on this underhand puppet of corporate interests. I’m gagging to hear more about her as the articles she writes don’t inspire confidence.
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