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Thread #152125   Message #3587050
Posted By: GUEST,Musket
28-Dec-13 - 02:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
See how Keith A Hole of Hertford picks up on an issue that health providers battle with, the depth of coding, and reckons The NHS makes it up. This is for two reasons.

Firstly he tries to attack anything I or two or three others say regardless and claims his google trawl doesn't give immediate quotes we use. He cannot understand we use our own words rather than cut and paste the words of others. He came a cropper when he did that with a far right political organisation earlier this year.

Secondly, this rather technical instrument, depth of coding represents the accuracy of the published data on health issues. The Health Protection Agency moan, quite rightly, that sloppy recording by health providers (including private providers) puts a far too wide tolerance on the figures. The consultants in public health who have to advise on types and priorities of services have to weigh the raw data against trawls of other intelligence. Once this is done, corrected ( to a degree ) figures are given back to The HPA. They in turn keep their original figures as their source and acknowledge refinements by public health and commissioners. Sexual health is a small part of it. The largest area is avoidable mortality. When you hear of The NHS chief medical director Bruce Keogh putting a hospital in "special measures" it is normally a concern over mortality figures. Occasionally this is found to be quality of care but in the vast majority of figures it is depth of coding. A trust in Yorkshire went from being one of the worst to one of the best in the Dr Foster ratings without a single quality improvement measure but focussing on coding. Or in other words, a man brought through A&E In the middle of the night died of the cancer he had, not the chest infection the emergency services diagnosed when collecting him from the care home. (A typical rather than extreme example.)

Sorry to bore people but this is my work. I don't know much about creationist nonsense or what Earl Haigh had for breakfast whilst earning the title Butcher of The Somme but I am acutely aware of those despicable bodies who twist health data to justify why they hate sections of society. We see it in sexual health with gay people and we see it in tuberculosis with the travelling community. We even see high incidence of type II diabetes with Asian origin people being used in the economic migrant debate.

I recognise the arguments Akenhateon and Keith A Hole of Hertford use, because those responsible for planning and delivery of healthcare services keep a watchful eye on opinions that can reach politicians in order to combat them with the real picture.

Keith rattles on about The British Medical Journal. I subscribe and read it every week. Numerous papers published over coding. Numerous papers published over planning sexual health services. I co authored a paper on the effect of coding on mortality outliers when working in regulation. Not being a health service professional, my input was board level assurance versus false flag funding.

Don't call me a liar Keith. Every time I say anything on any matter you start your tirade. You have already been exposed as a supporter of a far right group who advocate suppressing the gay community, so your credibility is about as good as Akenhateon's.