The medicines regulator the MHRA failed to sound the alarm over Covid vaccine side-effects and should be investigated, a cross party groups of MPs has said. Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph has more.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for approving drugs and devices and monitors side effects caused by treatments.
But the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on pandemic response and recovery, an influential group of MPs, has raised “serious patient safety concerns”. It has claimed that “far from protecting patients” the regulator operates in a way that “puts them at serious risk”.
Some 25 MPs across four parties have written to the Health Select Committee asking for an urgent investigation. In reply, Steve Brine, the Health Committee Chairman, has said an inquiry into patient safety is “very likely”.
In a letter to Mr. Brine, the APPG said that there was reason to believe that the MHRA had been aware of post-vaccination heart and clotting issues as early as February 2021, but did not highlight the problems for several months.
Denmark and several other European countries suspended the AstraZeneca vaccine over clotting fears in March 2021, but the MHRA only published safety advice on April 7th, by which time 24 million people had been vaccinated.
The watchdog also saw a “signal” for the heart problems myocarditis and pericarditis in February 2021, but did not include the conditions in safety updates until June 2021, MPs said.
“In effect, the MHRA licences medical products as safe knowing it lacks the processes to properly monitor adverse events,” the APPG wrote.
“In the case of COVID-19 vaccines, given the comparatively novel technology and record manufacturing speed, could the MHRA have even properly scrutinised the licensing data or known the short term safety?
“Historically trust and confidence in vaccines and vaccine safety has been high in the U.K., but it seems that the experience of the COVID-19 vaccines has undermined this and by association trust in the regulator and the pharmaceutical industry.
“Now more than ever a wide-reaching and in-depth review is needed.”
The group also warned that the MHRA Yellow Card reporting system – which encourages patients and doctors to flag-up medicine side effects – “grossly” underestimates complexities, and in some instances picks up just one in 180 cases of harm.
An analysis by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust found that in the North West of England, 1,058 people had been admitted to hospital with stomach bleeds caused by anticoagulant medication over five years, yet just six Yellow Card reports were made during the period.
Side effects from drugs account for one in every 16 hospital admissions in Britain, and cost the NHS more than £2 billion each year.
Dame June Raine, the Chief Executive of the MHRA, who announced she would be stepping down last week, said in 2022 the agency was transitioning from being a “watchdog” to an “enabler”, a phrase which MPs said warranted its own investigation.
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So poaching nurses from overseas, which will lead to a shortage in poorer countries. Fuck the poor, eh? Typical western approach.
Exactly what i first thought. What about patients in Kenya?
They can all move here and get free health care. And houses and money.
Millions went hungry in Kenya last year, collateral damage from our lockdowns. They don’t care about black lives unless they’re in Britain.
This has been happening for at least 20 years. Nurses from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and multiple African countries. I’m not going to get into discussion about being supernumerary or employed. They need to keep the 50:50 split between academia and clinical practice has to remain, simulation cannot substitute for real life.
But the Wah!NHS depends on stealing from the poor including countries poorer than here.
Obvs the Wah!NHS loses staff to countries with a 1st world healthcare system at the same time.
The quality of degree trained nurses is inferior to the SRNs & RGNs which they superseded, far less hands on experience & the result is HCAs are now used as the SRNs with less training & for far less remuneration. This change seriously reduced the quality of in-patient care.
the SEN SRN system seemed to work well for many years, until they decided to mess with it.
I wonder what the drop out rate is for these classroom trained “higher educated” nurses the first time they have to deal with some whacked out junkie that’s shuffling around in a psychotic delirium with its soiled underpants around its ankles.
Best to get that introduction to reality done up front, I suspect.
The new ‘degree’ nurses won’t deal with patients who have soiled themselves or other such ‘demeaning’ tasks. They believe they are above such things. My sister left school at 16 and went through every stage from Nursery Nurse through SRN/SCM to Matron. That’s the way to learn and deliver (forgive the pun) true care. Before she retired the Nursing 2000 graduates were talking down to her and refusing to do basic nursing tasks. Maybe the Overseas nurses are more interested in patient care than letters after their name.
Isn’t Kenya where the UK wouldn’t let people enter because of defective AZ vaccines ( how they tell the difference?)? What could possibly go wrong.
Defective?
The UK gifted them to Kenya FFS.
Talk about bureaucratic ineptitude.
Importing nurses from Kenya? There was a story last year that many people were going hungry in Kenya in part because of the UK’s lockdown and related measures, that people were eating giraffes to survive and teenage girls doing “bad things”. Well, I hope that they are going to ensure that there are enough nurses to look after people in Kenya as well. It wouldn’t be very nice to make millions of poor people in Africa suffer again, would it?
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I thought there were supposed to be many highly qualified nurses and doctors among all the “refugees” arriving by RNLI taxi in Dover aren’t there? No?
Mandating vaccinations is probably not the way to entice people into nursing or midwifery and yet that is the direction we are going into. However, your head will spin when you see how quickly this gov’t makes up for the falling numbers by enticing all double vaxxed nurses from the Phillipines and India to this country in lickety split time. No loyalty to all those frontline nurses and midwives who put their lives at risk(who most likely have a very strong immunity related to being exposed to Covid repetitively). That is the UK in a nutshell. Not one ounce of loyalty to their own, but we now have fifteen Afghan families living next door in a best western. The males assisted the British military in Afghanistan. But the nurses and midwives who served their fellow Brits, here in the UK during the Covid war are treated with contempt. Told they need a vaccine passport. Treated like criminals.
what can be expected of the N&MC when they appointed as Chief Registrar the same muppet who guided the banal Care Quality Commissions social care division and who repeatedly stated without a trace of irony or insight that there is not a link between quality-of-care and fee rates, right – so go tell that to the airline industry or the hotel sector or a car salesman … and then this dope gets to be the boss at N&MC, and we are left wondering what does a member of the elite Idiocracy have to do to get a reputation that matches their incompetence
There will soon be plenty of health care professionals from USA, Aus, Can, NZ, that will be looking for jobs if we have the guts to offer them one and not insist on requiring a useless jab to perform their duties.
Win, win…