Courses on the Importance of Listening as part of a Mental Health Initiative

Waiting for an internal review by Department of Health (Northern Ireland) of their handling of this request.

Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),

Are there any plans, perhaps as part of a Mental Health Initiative, to deliver Courses on the Importance of Listening to a Senior Civil Service perhaps used to a lifetime of Noting and Filing Only?

Have any such Courses perhaps already been delivered and if so can I please have a copy of the Course Notes?

Finally are there perhaps any plans to roll out such courses to ordinary civil servants who find themselves, sadly and reluctantly, charged with the sorry business of actual implementation of long standing, fully Official, Note and File Only Orders?

Good Luck. I wish you well.

Yours faithfully,

AIDAN QUINN

Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),
Hey, we're a little overdue. Education is so important. Whatever NICS policies on Noting and Filing targeted people, we all have a Fundamental and Overriding Duty of Care to our fellow man. People's Mental Health cannot continue to be used as legitimate Management tool. Too many are getting hurt.

Please get back to me when you can. Good Luck. I wish you well.

Yours faithfully,

AIDAN QUINN

Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),

Hey, we're getting very overdue.

Mental Health matters. NICS really cannot be allowed to continue deliberately creating stress as legitimate management tool or the wonderful NHS will be overwhelmed. I 'm sure you intuitively know this yourselves, even if you're not allowed to say, officially.

The Ulster public outside of NICS know it and the international business financial and investment communities have long known it too. Americans run a mile thinking of the insurance and liability implications of deliberately and knowingly imposing mental ill health on a population as legitimate management tool. In America there would be criminal proceedings probably resulting in the key being thrown away. It may be time for an urgent rethink, before say, Capita (70,000 people's jobs) collapses completely.

In the circumstances can I please ask for an internal review if that's all right? It's the least I can do.

Good luck. I wish you well. Keep safe and look after your own staff. They're worth it, one and all.

Yours faithfully,

AIDAN QUINN