NHS Bureaucracy Gone Mad
One thing that strikes me from Sandie Peggie's tribunal is the number of highly paid NHS managers who ganged up to get a nurse with a 30-year unblemished record of service to her local community suspended.
I've counted 8 NHS Fife managers who have given evidence recently, but far from protecting the interests of everyone involved - including Sandie Peggie's - this group showed extreme favouritism towards doctor Ted Upton, a man pretending to be a woman.
Suspension should be be a last resort, a neutral act to facilitate a speedy investigation into a serious incident, yet Sandie Peggie was suspended for two months over what amounted to more 'hurty words' - when she should have been looking after patients.
Scotland's NHS has more money and more staff than ever before - the problem is there are far too many of them concentrated in the wrong places, far too many overpaid managers and too few front-line staff like Sandi Peggie.
