Patients Association Webinar November 2022

Rachel Powers in conversation with Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner.

Henrietta Hughes Patient Safety Commissioner, in a webinar with Rachel Power. Henrietta is a Gp but is also enjoying her role as Patient Safety Commissioner which oversees the safety of patients in all things from medicines to medical devices.

So far contacted by 100 people with various concerns from all sorts of things including vaccines and feels creating the safe environments for those with concerns is essential.

My question: "What improvements to safeguards will you put in place to better protect patients from supposed "safe and effective" vaccines?"

Talking about resources and where they could be better utilised for the safety of the patient and hearing those voices so they feel they're being recognised.

Inquiries being held are essential and a "showing of kindness" is a good thing for staff and patient safety and well-being but can often be seen as a secondary act sadly Dr Hughes states. Empowering those patients to provide valuable feedback to provide better services for themselves and others, this isn't being done effectively just now. Interesting that Private "chat" was disabled during the webinar whereas this was a handy networking tool as stated by an attendee, whereas the private Q&A was to be used as reference to live debate I understood.

My question: Talking about community feedback groups in Drs offices and pharmacy's being essential for patients to be heard but to me there's no evidence of this actually happening? Patients aren't being heard and any feedback you give then goes negatively against you.

Henrietta stating that patients have the ultimate knowledge of what's happening to them and should be listened to as a way of setting a standard but it is a problem in healthcare.

Talking of Allies in medical care and networking is key to building an ability to strengthening ties between groups to stop problems and harms happening in the future and the senior leaders seeming to be unapproachable with concerns and questions but offering a solution by improving that pathway. Henrietta states she is looking into patient concerns and providing hope that improvements will be made by answering webinar questions quite thoroughly but I'm still feeling it's sadly lacking. Working with MHRA to tackle patient feedback issues and the yellow cards aren't perfect but it is essential to be used to get those patient reports submitted.

Rachel Power made mention of those present in the webinar today that were also present for the MHRA board meeting and felt they weren't being heard.

It was Interesting to hear such a wide variety of people that joined the webinar from fellow vaccine injures, pharmacy practitioner's, parents as carers of adult children, agency nurses and so many more.

My question: Yellow-card reports have been removed and was admitted during the MHRA meeting, and not just VAERS submitted ones. Why? Data conflicts was quoted but our injuries are real and should be heard. Henrietta did cover work to be done with MHRA and vaccine injuries and talks with Christopher Chope to tackle this but as a Gp, shouldn't the first aim to be to tackle the "first do no harm" oath that all medical Drs undertake?

"Under patient safety I feel it's more important to focus on those medical issues still outstanding like medical Mesh issues (which i grant can be an awful thing to experience i understand) and that still haven't been tackled effectively." I'm sorry but there are thousands of people affected by vaccine injuries and to quote the yellow card site there are over a million injury reports. This is a critical and ongoing medical health emergency when vaccines are still being rolled out and pushed by Drs and medical "experts" that they should be removed from use. When will this happen?

I was cut off at this point but it was probably a coincidence that the alllotted time for the Webinar had run out at this point.

By chance i checked up on future Webinars that are available to book and the Sponsors of them are very interesting with AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk and Nutricia covering Patient Partnership Week and it's clearly stated that "No Sponsor has Influence over the content of the Webinars", much like with the MHRA set-up i'm guessing? Total Impartiality.