Who rules? Taxpayers or the NHS?

Daniel Sencier has made an FOI request of his local Northwest Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust.

They say they don't keep statistics specifically about their prostate cancer patients.

We do not have information specifically relating to prostate cancer and as it would take a manual search through patient records to obtain this information. This part of the request is refused on the grounds of Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act.

And this cancer is a relatively common killer of men. If they don't track their performance in treating this disease, how would they know how well they were doing? Is it just a coincidence that Daniel was treated so badly?

They gave Daniel information about a sample of patients but he has no idea whether it is representative. Apparently nor have they.

So we can say that they are not doing this part of their job properly.

But that doesn't stop them getting on their high horse and showing just who they think is in charge.

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Er ... aren't Daniel and his fellow citizens paying your salaries?

Too big to be accountable.