Female Indian radiographer at British hospital couldn’t X-ray a foot – she’d claimed 23 years’ experience on her CV but in fact was a receptionist
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14498877/Female-Indian-radiographer-British-hospital-X-ray-foot-shed-claimed-23-years-experience-CV-fact-receptionist.html
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Not her fault.. Somebody got paid to check out her credentials first.
Edit, to be clear: We accept the possibility of candidates lying when applying for jobs. It’s not illegal, just immoral. That is why others are getting paid to check if people are lying in their job applications.
Worse, she most likely got her immigration visa claiming she’s part of the very much needed healthcare workforce, a guaranteed fast track. Same thing there – somebody failed to check, though paid to do it, this time from the public purse.
What’s going to happen next? Nothing.. She gets a slap on the wrist, so she’ll just phone home and tell others how easy it is to lie on your application with zero repercussions.
I fancy a go how hard can it be. Anyone want to volunteer to be my first patient?
Whoever employed her needs sacking. Fucking useless.
So she:
1. Claimed English was her first language when she was subsequently found to be “below the level for fluency”.
2. Claimed to have 23 years experience as a radiographer when she was actually a receptionist.
3. Couldn’t do basic things that even untrained people could do.
4. Only avoided putting patients at serious risk of harm because someone with suspicion supervised her at all times.
And, for that, they decided that she was “not dishonest”, there was no “misconduct”, and she’s been suspended for six months and then will be welcomed back.
What. The. Fuck.
You can say “you’re a friendly, cheerful and eager person – but, you’re not qualified, not competent and can’t be trusted. You need to go away and do something else” (especially because working in healthcare in the UK will beat the friendly, cheerful and eager out of her pretty damn quick.
My company has been burned by someone lying their way through interviews and with fake credentials, it became very obvious very quickly on their first day.
Lesson learned for us.
However all we had is some shit code to deal with, nothing potentially dangerous or medically significant.
This is bullshit.
It’s clear she has no qualifications to be a radiographer and she lied about working in CT (you can’t really work in CT if you can’t operate a fucking xray). She should be arrested and deported, but nope.
This only ingrains my belief that there’s a log of “nurses” from abroad that have absolutely no fucking skill or knowledge to be able to work in their profession yet they are allowed to work.
It’s a pretty big scandal brewing for sure. I really do question some of the medical advice I’ve got from foreign qualified doctors at my GP surgery the very very rare times I’ve actually been able to see one.
> However, they concluded that her actions were ‘naive’ as opposed to dishonest and that the expectations were ‘very different’ from the remote part of India she had worked in before and she had at some point been trained in radiography.
So there was a misunderstanding of what the job role was. Since radiographers aren’t doctors and she was supervised the whole time I guess the processes worked as they were intended.
Can add that to the over 700 Nigerian nurses they found had fake certificates.
I lied on my CV about being cocktail trained and I knew how to change a beer keg. A few sneaky on shift YouTube tutorials under the bar sorted me out.
This, however, isn’t something I’d consider lying about.
Horrible default for everything at the moment – you have to assume some element of fraud is involved.
I once got a health insurance clinic nurse who didn’t know how to take blood. She tried 3 times, leaving three bruises, and then gave up, slightly freaking out. I would probably have done a better job than her.
Wonder if she came here on a “vindaloo visa”
https://uk-immigrationservices.co.uk/priti-patel-and-the-vindaloo-visa/
Without giving too much identifiable information away I strongly suspect something similar happened in my workplace. The person had all the documentation and qualifications they needed to do the job but they were so utterly useless that I strongly suspect there was some sort of identity fraud going on. The ages of their children seemed to change from week to week too. Whole thing was bizarre.
This exact eventuality was warned off as “project fear” during the Brexit debacle. Looks like our chickens have come home to roost.
Interestingly in reverse, companies, often notably overseas and more notably again Dubai will often request a certifying statement of results from an exams board (with your permission), to prove your qualifications are as you say they are. They may also ask the exams board to verify whether a certificate is fraudulent or not.
Evidently we don’t do it much with proving overseas qualifications
This is why we shouldn’t value overseas qualifications: there is no way to verify the quality of education and training given.
For crying out loud. It even says patients were put at risk. If you still can’t sack her then what does she need to do to get sacked? Hurt someone?
Can we sack the board?
Who recruited her?
Unqualified people hiring unqualified people because they have similarities is rife, unfortunately.
I know somebody who never went to university but just says on their CV they did English at Cambridge. Nobody’s ever checked or tried to verify that.
I think more people are realising it’s very, very easy to lie on your CV apart from the very last few jobs where you’ll get employer references. Although having said that, at my work we recently had an applicant who said they’d worked at HSBC in a developing country, they even gave a reference email address etc, my colleague did some investigating and found it was just a front, and not the real bank.
And as she can no longer earn enough money to satisfy the conditions of her visa she was deported right?…and because she came to the UK under fraudulent pretences she was deported right…?
Yet another idiotic thing thats getting us 1 step closer to a racist and fascist government in this country.
We have too much empathy that is being taken advantage of and nothing is being done about it and people are going to end up voting in the people who say they will stop this no matter how extreme they are.
There is a growing amount of stories from people in the UK & USA that Indian/African people are hiring people of their same race rather than the best candidate and it wouldn’t surprise me if this happened here as well
The people who were responsible for checking her qualifications should be sacked for gross misconduct as should she it’s that simple.
This sub’s take on the daily mail gives me whiplash.
Has the story been reported anywhere else? The Daily Fail is notorious for its fake news
Why are female and Indian relevant in the title? Would they write “male English radiographer” if that was the case, or just “Radiographer”?
I knew of someone who claimed to be a lawyer when actually she worked as a receptionist in the firm. This was in the USA
this issue isn’t that new unfortunately… over 20 years ago I had been taken to the ER as a kid after falling down some stairs and getting my neck stuck on one side. when I got to the x-ray part, the radiographer barely spoke english. he was saying the neck needs to be straight for the x-ray, and I was explaining that I can’t straighten my neck that’s why im there. he didn’t understand what I was saying I guess as he straightened my neck by force- which led me to collapse on the floor in pain (parents were not allowed into the x-ray room with me). I recall him apologizing a lot in broken english and running off, presumably to get someone who knows what they’re doing.
luckily there wasn’t lasting damage in my case, but that was before a doctor had even examined me… who knows what could have happened. so yeah, the issue is at least a couple decades old, likely older.
I’m gobsmacked the medical instrustry doesn’t have internationally recognised qualifications/licence. In my engineering field, if you apply for a job abroad, you have to give your licence number, which can then be checked by the potential employer. On your licence, it shows complaints against you and all qualifications gained. The licence is set at the same level across the world to ensure all holders meet a minimum proven competence level.
I was at the GP and their physiotherapist told me that I need to develop more muscles on my ankle. I don’t know how but I convinced him for MRI while he pressed an x ray?! ( you cannot see soft tissue damage, in fact ultrasound would work better). MRI technician wrote in the description that I got only small tear on ligament. In the end I went to specialist with recording from MRI who told me I got 2 ligaments ruptured and I need a surgery before I cause more damage to the joint. He didn’t even need an MRI put a finger down where ligament should be and asked me to move an ankle couple times.
So like this must be fraud right?
How is she not getting thrown in prison for it?
Gosh. At this rate they’ll be doing a piece on the Navan and Drogheada hospitals in Ireland next…
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