VELINDRE and the winding road to truth
Colocate Velindre has exposed and challenged what it sees as a sustained misleading of the public regarding the clinical legitimacy of the new Velindre Cancer Centre. Many clinicians called upon Velindre’s Transforming Cancer Services to put its project to an independent, external clinical review, essential to confirm fitness for purpose. TCS disregarded them, its project now supportable only by the false claim of a Nuffield Trust review. But this assumption, though false, thereby conceded the inaccuracy of TCS’s claims of previous clinical reviews. Hence, there have been none at all though absolutely essential. And it is never too late to right a wrong.
A Welsh Government email has now withdrawn claims that the Nuffield Trust report of 2020 delivered a clinical review. But it has not admitted its own complicity in repeatedly misleading the public and even NHS professionals. Hence, we believe, the need for a public correction. At issue is at least £1billion of government cancer debt for a single, reduced, outpatients cancer unit. We argue that the project may not just steam ahead, clinically unvalidated, when c.90% of the spend still lies ahead.
Exchanges between Colocate and the then health minister have culminated in a Complaint for the minister’s breach of the ministerial code of conduct. Hence we now post together here the four main documents engaging the issues. They come in a chosen order under the generic title of CODE OF CONDUCT but with subheadings. It is in the first document showing email exchanges that government withdraws the longstanding myth of a Nuffield review but with accountability inventively ducked.
CODE OF CONDUCT 1: Exchanges towards the truth.
CODE OF CONDUCT 2: Complaint lodged with the First Minister
CODE OF CONDUCT 3: Revealing exchanges with the Complaint Investigator
CODE OF CONDUCT 4: Summary on handling of the Complaint
