WHAT ARE THEY PLAYING AT? NHS Misconduct — Do They Not Know?
When Tricks Replace Treatment
(wasn’t going to write for a bit as very busy but this is unbelievable)
Across the country, people in pain, people fighting for their lives, people asking for basic care — are being met with something that has nothing to do with medicine. Instead of diagnosis, treatment, or help — they face manipulation.
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I am going to repeat a few things here in order to ensure you understand.
NHS GP’s and some 111 staff (most are excellent) use tactics not care.
Tactics that confuse, exhaust, and discredit. Techniques designed to make you doubt yourself so they never have to address what’s actually wrong. They are clearly being ill-advised by people who care nothing about doctors or their professional reputation.
📋 THE DELPHI TECHNIQUE — WHAT HAPPENS: this is meant for pow’s allegedly — outlawed by the CIA apparently…but done to fragile, sick and disabled people here in London even.
- Repeating questions already answered → making you explain yourself again and again until you tire or snap
- Feigning confusion or lack of knowledge → making you feel unclear instead of them
- Refusing to acknowledge established facts → forcing you to keep proving what you’ve already proven
- Shifting focus away from the issue → every request met with something else entirely
- Drawing out the conversation → wearing you down so you give up
🛤️ DERAILING — HOW THEY DODGE:
- Changing the subject when you get to the medical need
- Bringing up unrelated topics — mood, lifestyle, anything but your results
- Promising to look into it → followed by silence
- Making it about how you speak, not what you’re saying
⚠️ THIS IS NOT MEDICINE — IT IS MISCONDUCT:
- The NHS does not endorse or train clinicians to use these tactics against patients
- They are unprofessional — psychological techniques applied to evade care, not provide it
- They are inappropriate — and when used to avoid addressing medical needs, they can be misconduct
- These are methods used to deflect responsibility, not to treat illness
💔 WHO IS AFFECTED:
- People in chronic pain fighting for assessment and help
- Those needing long-term or complex treatment
- People asking for second opinions or referrals
- Anyone whose condition doesn’t fit a simple, quick solution
- Individuals fighting for years — sometimes all day, every day — just to be heard
✅ THE TRUTH:
When someone is fighting for their life, sometimes for years, in pain, asking for care — they deserve medicine, not mind games. If they push back, keep asking, refuse to give up — that is not being difficult. That is knowing your body and refusing to be ignored.
Why are those sworn to help using tactics to silence instead? What are they playing at?
A private ex NHS GP told me a few days ago “nobody is safe in the UK”
TO THE NHS: THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE
There are clinicians using techniques — including NLP-derived methods — against vulnerable patients. Let this be clearly understood:
This is NOT professional NLP. This is NOT ethical practice. This is NOT care.
When these methods are used on people in pain, people who are vulnerable, people fighting for their lives — it is the worst thing a doctor can do. It is manipulation disguised as medicine. It is psychological harm inflicted on those who are already suffering.
✅ THIS IS MISCONDUCT — PURE AND SIMPLE:
- It is not communication — it is confusion designed to silence
- It is not listening — it is derailing to avoid the issue
- It is not assessment — it is wearing someone down until they give up
- It is not medicine — it is misconduct
Vulnerable people in pain do not need mind games. They do not need to be out-argued. They do not need their own words twisted against them. They need to be heard. They need to be examined. They need treatment.
The NHS needs to know this is happening. It needs to stop. Now.
report your experience mailto:practise@gmc-uk.org
Liz Lucy Robillard
