Posted on 02/11/2016 8:53:55 PM PST by BenLurkin
Harrison Ford's accident on the set of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is coming back to wreak havoc on Foodles Production, a British subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co.
In 2014, Ford suffered a broken leg on the set, after being struck by a hydraulic door aboard his character Han Solo’s famed ship, the Millennium Falcon, causing the actor, who was 71 at the time, to be airlifted from Buckinghamshire to Oxford to undergo surgery for the fracture.
On Thursday, British Health and Safety Executive announced their intent to prosecute Foodles Production on four charges of violating workplace health and safety laws.
"By law, employers must take reasonable steps to protect workers. This is as true on a film set as a factory floor," HSE said in a released statement. "We have investigated thoroughly and believe that we have sufficient evidence to bring the case to court."
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Libs suing Libs, I think this is in the wrong thread. Kelly Oreilly.
Good thing it wasn’t a Ford Pinto.
Was he rushed to a NHS hospital or a private one? Enquiring minds and such.
He was airlifted to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford which is an NHS hospital - a particularly good one, as it is the main teaching hospital for Oxford University, but it is NHS.
Han struck first!
Pathetic.
LOL
Did he get on the "Liverpool Pathway"....a quick trip from ward to morgue.
The discredited Liverpool Care Pathway is still being used in some hospitals despite having been scrapped, a Commons report will reveal.
A cancer charity warns that despite an NHS ban, the controversial end-of-life programme is still in use under 'a different name'.
The report comes as police are investigating the death of a second 'healthy' pensioner at a hospital in Cheshire. The family of Margaret Smart, 93, lodged a formal complaint against Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, saying they were convinced the mother of 12 died after being dehydrated.
A new report has warned that hospitals are still using the discredited treatment method, file photograph
Nurses told MPs that some hospitals have merely 'tweaked' the end-of-life protocol and given it another title – meaning the 'abuse' suffered by some frail and vulnerable patients under the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) may still be happening.
The Royal College of Nursing said its members had 'not seen a significant difference' in the way care is delivered in England since the pathway was withdrawn last year.
The LCP involves the withdrawal of life-saving treatment. Patients are sedated and most are denied food and fluids. They typically die within 29 hours.
Critics said it was a way of hastening death, and – following pressure from the Daily Mail – it was phased out following the Neuberger review two years ago, which found some patients were so dehydrated they were forced to suck on hospital sponges.
Broken leg in 2014 on movies set. Crashed his plane on a golf course in 2015.
I wonder how many of their serfs get airlifted with broken legs? Of course, the production company might have contracted for the additional services.
It is unusual for an air ambulance to be used in the way it was with Ford (although not unheard of with an elderly patient - and whether he likes it or not, he would be classed as such), and there were some reports in the press that he was given special treatment but this has been denied by the Thames Valley Air Ambulance service which provided the flight.
It should be understood that the TVAA is not part of the NHS, but is a charity that relies on donations.
I know people like to say bad things about the NHS, but the fact is it does work very well in certain circumstances - and emergency medicine is one of those. There are issues with other parts of it operation - it can be really hard to get to see a Doctor if it isn't an actual emergency for example and the waiting lists for any type of surgery or tests that are deemed not urgent can be excessive, but if you need emergency care after an accident, they generally do a very good job and do what is needed.
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