All posts by Gordon

2019 – 45 – nmc NMC Hello friend, NMC? It stands for the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Why NMC? Read on… By March, I had been dutifully going to work (in the library) for 5 months with debilitating symptoms (and 4 months of the coughing illness). I asked myself this question: “Why am I putting
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2019 – 44 – cervical stenosis Cervical Stenosis Hello friend, In order to continue the ‘threat’ IR story I have to fill in some gaps in my difficulties with Healthcare (see also 2019-10, 2019-13 and 2019-15. Back in October last year, one of the nurses told me she would be booking an appointment for me
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2019 – 43 – category a Category A Hello friend, The Independent Psychologist met with me last week. It was, at times emotionally draining. Until I saw their report, I wasn’t sure how it went – positively. Yes, there are parts of the report which I feel could have been fleshed out a little more,
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2019 – 42 – category a Category A Hello friend, Step 1: try to get some more detail from Security on the nature of this alleged ‘threat’. Once again, my expectations were confounded. Not only did Security reply to my application (often they don’t) but they told me this ‘threat’ was that I was going
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2019 – 41 – category a Category A Hello friend, To deal with ‘problem 1 and 4’, I submitted a complaint to the Cat A section. Surprisingly, I encountered no resistance; we got a deferrment of around a month and the cut of date, duplicate report was removed from the dossier. Problem 2 and 3
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019 – 40 – category a Category A Hello friend, …and where to start? At the beginning of the year, a senior member of staff admitted to me that I would not be progressed through my sentence unless I did an ‘offence-focussed’ course. The only course that is currently being touted for prisoners who are
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2019 – 39 – category A Category A Hello friend, This is one of those blogs that I do not look forward to writing; partly because of how depressing it is for me to repeat the same points over and over again, and partly because it always ends up being this complicated and huge piece
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2019 – 38 – heatwave Heatwave Hello friend, It’s been another really uncomfortable summer. You’ve seen the prison films like ‘Cool Hand Luke’ where, as a punishment, the prisoner is put in ‘the hot box’ and left there for a few days. Whilst maybe not as bad, the temperature our cells reach must hit dangerous
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2019 – 37 – blog Blog Hello friend, Forgive me reader, for I have sinned; It’s been exactly 2 months since my last blog… No… it’s not because I’ve been lazy – I’ve had a lot of work to do on a number of different issues. There’s been good and bad stuff to do with
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DPA Hello friend, I made a Data Protection Act request in February last year. Despite my complaint to the MoJ, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) upholding my complaint and their two letters to the MoJ, I still had not received the personal information I had requested. The only course of action now left to me
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