09.23.09
NHS work with Primecare !! what is going on ? Life is cheap! and profits roll!
But the story below happened 5 years ago!
and now we have the incident at Rye Hill Prison where a Ukrainian who dies whilst supposedly under Primecare watch! scary! and who in the Government is asssiting this company ? as they have grown out of all proportions these past 12 years !! wow Labour sure helps some in Health Biz!
Paedophile held post as police surgeonAs sex offender gets 15 years, job loophole is revealed
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A dangerous paedophile convicted yesterday of drugging, raping and filming girls got a job as a police doctor, despite previous accusations of sexually abusing children.
Robert Wells, 52, was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of nine of the 11 charges he faced, including raping an 11-year-old girl twice and sexually assaulting her three times.
Wells, who denied all the offences, also filmed himself attacking another 11-year-old girl as she slept after giving the victim and her five-year-old sister Angel Delight dessert laced with tranquillisers.
The Winchester crown court jury of nine men and three women deliberated for seven and a half hours before clearing Wells of raping and indecently assaulting the five-year-old.
But in a shocking parallel to the case of the Soham murderer, Ian Huntley, it was revealed yesterday that a vetting loophole led to Wells getting a job as a police surgeon six years after being charged with assaulting two girls. Detectives fear he abused many more victims in his 27 years as a doctor.
In 1995, Wells was cleared of attacking an eight-year-old girl and a girl of 15 in Brighton when two separate trials at Lewes crown court collapsed following legal arguments. The General Medical Council decided to take no action.
However, in October 2001 he was sub-contracted through Primecare medical staffing agency to work for Hampshire police, examining victims of crime, despite being known to the neighbouring Sussex force.
Guidelines in place from 1993 to 2002 meant police were only obliged to carry out local checks. They now have to run checks everywhere the prospective employee lived for the previous five years.
Hampshire’s assistant chief constable, Colin Smith, who is responsible for police doctors in the force, said vetting procedures had been tightened as a result of the Wells case. He would not have employed Wells had he known of any previous allegations, but he said that Primecare, Wells’ main employer, had the major responsibility for carrying out checks.
Primecare said it completed all the required government checks at the time, and Hampshire police insisted they were satisfied Wells did not abuse any of the 20 girls under 16 he examined as part of 3,731 examinations he carried out for them from October 2001 until his arrest in February 2003.
Nevertheless, the case raises questions about how many more sex abusers might have slipped through the net and obtained jobs giving them access to children and vulnerable adults. Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, got a job as a school caretaker in Soham, Cambridgeshire, despite a catalogue of sexual accusations against him from women and girls in Humberside, where he had previously lived; these were wiped from police records because he had no convictions.
Passing sentence yesterday, Judge Keith Cutler said Wells was a dangerous sex offender who used his status and wealth to gain the trust of his victims’ parents, and that his behaviour cast a shadow over the entire medical profession.
The offences took place in 2002 and 2003. But detectives believe Wells may have abused many more victims in his 27 years as a doctor and appealed for them to come forward.
Police officers, who described his deviousness and total refusal to cooperate with the investigation, are trying to decode encrypted computer files which could yield vital clues, although they admitted this could take years.
Detective Inspector Sara Glen, who headed the inquiry, said the computer file had a long list of girls’ names on it and she was convinced more crimes would be uncovered.
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Coroner condemns Rye Hill jail where prisoner on suicide watch bled to deathBuzz up!
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James Sturcke guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 September 2009 18.57 BST Article history
A coroner today condemned “appalling and unacceptable conditions” at a privately-run prison where an inmate on suicide watch was allowed to bleed to death. Aleksey Baranovsky, 33, a Ukrainian national, died in a blood-covered cell at HMP Rye Hill, Warwickshire, in June 2006.
A jury was told that Baranovsky repeatedly self-harmed himself as a protest against his pending deportation after serving a seven-year sentence for burglary. Baranovsky feared he would be killed by Russian mafia if he was sent back home.
After being placed on constant supervision, Baranovsky was found unconscious, kneeling on the ground in his cell, with his head and arms resting on his bed.
Returning a narrative verdict, the jury found inadequacies and failures contributed to his death, which was caused by anaemia due to chronic blood loss and under-nutrition.
“The treatment that Aleksey received during the period that he was at Rye Hill was appalling and … unacceptable,” the assistant deputy coroner for Northamptonshire ,Tom Osbourne, told the inquest at Irthlingborough.
Baranovsky’s death was the third in a 15-month period at the GSL-run prison and came after inspectors concluded Rye Hill was “unsafe and an unstable environment, both for prisoners and staff”.
The jury found that failures to carry out an adequate mental health assessment and to assess health needs contributed to the death. It criticised the lack of communication between the healthcare service at the prison, run by private company Primecare at the time, and prison security and prison management, which led to “insufficient management of Mr Baranovsky’s wellbeing”.
Liz Clay, security manager at the prison, told the inquest that on one occasion “quite a lot of blood” had been left in the cell for more than 12 hours before it was properly cleaned.
Chaplain Charles Sweeney said other prisoners were concerned about the blood in Baranovsky’s cell. He said he thought there was a “lack of care and compassion” towards the inmate.
The Prison Reform Trust director, Juliet Lyon, said inquests into three deaths had highlighted serious shortcomings at Rye Hill. “Notwithstanding any improvements made since these tragic deaths, serious questions remain about the competence and accountability of its private providers and the private healthcare they commissioned at the time.
“The story of Aleksey Baranovsky’s final months is shocking and disturbing. No one should be so neglected or have to die such a lonely, lingering death.”
Jerry Petherick, for GSL, claimed huge improvements had been made since Baranovsky’s death. “I think we have learned from this enormously. It’s almost unrecognisable to the establishment of some time ago,” he said.
