Thanks A Million campaign scam
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Posted Yesterday 13:17
This was a way to circumvent the ICO ruling in 2015:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2899808...sands-customers.html
Apparently, applicants were required to attach a photo of themselves not wearing glasses. The reason being, OE were cherry picking ‘winners’ who would look good in the promo ads!
I don’t believe for one minute that OE gave away £1 million in surgery. What it did give them was access to people’s details - and a licence to hit them with relentless emails and texts 👀
If you read the previous post, you’ll note that Stephen Hannan’s first cousin, Laura Newman, was advertised as a winner! Were this true, then I guess there was nothing in the rules about family members being excluded from entering 😏
Apparently, applicants were required to attach a photo of themselves not wearing glasses. The reason being, OE were cherry picking ‘winners’ who would look good in the promo ads!
I don’t believe for one minute that OE gave away £1 million in surgery. What it did give them was access to people’s details - and a licence to hit them with relentless emails and texts 👀
If you read the previous post, you’ll note that Stephen Hannan’s first cousin, Laura Newman, was advertised as a winner! Were this true, then I guess there was nothing in the rules about family members being excluded from entering 😏
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CQC & HIS awards was created by Sasha
Posted 23 Feb 2023 17:40
The Care Quality Commission and Healthcare Improvement Scotland ratings for Optical Express are horrifying, and truly make me feel physically sick!
'Optical Express clinic on Corporation Street, Birmingham which treats people suffering from cataracts, has received the highest possible rating of ‘outstanding’ in a spectacular review following a visit from the Care and Quality Commission (CQC). In a glowing report, inspectors said: “Staff treated patients with compassion and kindness, respected their privacy and dignity, and took account of their individual needs.”'
www.opticalexpress.co.uk/magazine/articl...ated-outstanding-cqc
'Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) has rated four Optical Express surgery clinics in Scotland as ‘Exceptional’ following recent inspections. The Optical Express clinics in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness offer a range of clinical eye care services to patients including laser eye surgery, cataract surgery and lens replacement surgery. Of the three domains of rating, each of the clinics were awarded three ‘Exceptional’ ratings, the highest ratings available, by the Scottish regulator.Optical Express’ Scottish clinics received the spectacular review after visits from HIS earlier this year. In one of the glowing reports, a patient involved in the inspection of the Aberdeen clinic remarked that “The team had a good balance of professionalism and treated me like a valued friend.”’
"Noelle Hannan, Glasgow Clinic Registered Manager and Clinical Director [& Tweedle’s wife], said: “I am very proud that our clinic in Glasgow has been recognised in this way by HIS and rated ‘Exceptional’. This is a massive achievement for us and it wouldn’t be possible without all the hard work from our multi-disciplinary team who demonstrate energy and enthusiasm whilst ensuring the very high standards we adhere to are fulfilled. I’m proud to be part of a team that is modelling best practice, and I know first-hand that our patients are grateful for the first rate service and outcomes they receive.”’ [ROTFLMAO!]
www.opticalexpress.co.uk/magazine/articl...-exceptional-ratings
Circled in yellow in the background poster, mental health nurse, Georgia Lee, was a recipient of the Thanks A Million scam (1); under the guise of benevolancy, OE sickeningly used the 2017 terrorist attacks to circumvent the Information Commissioner's Office’s enforcement re spam texts (2).
aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/healthcare-im...-clinic-exceptional/
The corrupt company even published a picture of ‘winner' Laura Newman on Instagram - who is in fact Stephen Hannan’s cousin and OE employee, fraudulently claiming she’d won free laser surgery (3)!
And not the first time they’ve posed staff as customers in promotional photos!
(1) www.opticalexpress.co.uk/thanks-a-million/georgia
(2) panopticonblog.com/2015/09/03/blindly-fu...-and-optical-express
(3) www.opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk/index.php/oermlblog (7 Dec 2019)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) have chosen to totally ignore the many thousands of people damaged by Optical Express, whose eyes and lives are permanently ruined! Not forgetting the cost to the NHS, burdened with providing expensive aftercare.
They disgust me, along with every other organisation claiming to protect the public, instead rewarding and promoting the companies responsible for causing so much devastation and pain to people's lives!
Representatives from both regulators are invited to Bad Eye Day Lobby at the House of Commons on 17 April, when they can hear first hand accounts from people they are supposed to protect!
If government ministers (and allegedly a few CQC employees fed by David Moulsdale) stopped taking backhanders and bothered to address this scandal, it's not a difficult task to collate the numbers of damaged refractive surgery patients turning to the NHS, as I discussed at a meeting with Moorfields Eye Hospital CEO and MD in September 2018.
They eventually agreed to this, but their successors, Martin Kuper and Louisa Wickham, have refused to engage with me, Dr Kuper not even having the courtesy to reply to any of my emails.
As for Louisa Wickham, whom I’ve met on four occasions over the years, when accompanying MBEF clients to their NHS consultations, she is fully aware of the problems caused by the unregulated refractive industry.
The first time we met, Louisa gave me permission to quote her stating that she would not risk having laser eye surgery because her eyes are too valuable.
Now in a position to help, why is she not doing so?
Tweedledum|Stephen Hannan not so pretty in Pink, Dr David Teenan in Lime, Dr Sajjad Mughal in Orange.
#blindedonthehighstreet #stormsasha
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'Optical Express clinic on Corporation Street, Birmingham which treats people suffering from cataracts, has received the highest possible rating of ‘outstanding’ in a spectacular review following a visit from the Care and Quality Commission (CQC). In a glowing report, inspectors said: “Staff treated patients with compassion and kindness, respected their privacy and dignity, and took account of their individual needs.”'
www.opticalexpress.co.uk/magazine/articl...ated-outstanding-cqc
'Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) has rated four Optical Express surgery clinics in Scotland as ‘Exceptional’ following recent inspections. The Optical Express clinics in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness offer a range of clinical eye care services to patients including laser eye surgery, cataract surgery and lens replacement surgery. Of the three domains of rating, each of the clinics were awarded three ‘Exceptional’ ratings, the highest ratings available, by the Scottish regulator.Optical Express’ Scottish clinics received the spectacular review after visits from HIS earlier this year. In one of the glowing reports, a patient involved in the inspection of the Aberdeen clinic remarked that “The team had a good balance of professionalism and treated me like a valued friend.”’
"Noelle Hannan, Glasgow Clinic Registered Manager and Clinical Director [& Tweedle’s wife], said: “I am very proud that our clinic in Glasgow has been recognised in this way by HIS and rated ‘Exceptional’. This is a massive achievement for us and it wouldn’t be possible without all the hard work from our multi-disciplinary team who demonstrate energy and enthusiasm whilst ensuring the very high standards we adhere to are fulfilled. I’m proud to be part of a team that is modelling best practice, and I know first-hand that our patients are grateful for the first rate service and outcomes they receive.”’ [ROTFLMAO!]
www.opticalexpress.co.uk/magazine/articl...-exceptional-ratings
Circled in yellow in the background poster, mental health nurse, Georgia Lee, was a recipient of the Thanks A Million scam (1); under the guise of benevolancy, OE sickeningly used the 2017 terrorist attacks to circumvent the Information Commissioner's Office’s enforcement re spam texts (2).
aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/healthcare-im...-clinic-exceptional/
The corrupt company even published a picture of ‘winner' Laura Newman on Instagram - who is in fact Stephen Hannan’s cousin and OE employee, fraudulently claiming she’d won free laser surgery (3)!
And not the first time they’ve posed staff as customers in promotional photos!
(1) www.opticalexpress.co.uk/thanks-a-million/georgia
(2) panopticonblog.com/2015/09/03/blindly-fu...-and-optical-express
(3) www.opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk/index.php/oermlblog (7 Dec 2019)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) have chosen to totally ignore the many thousands of people damaged by Optical Express, whose eyes and lives are permanently ruined! Not forgetting the cost to the NHS, burdened with providing expensive aftercare.
They disgust me, along with every other organisation claiming to protect the public, instead rewarding and promoting the companies responsible for causing so much devastation and pain to people's lives!
Representatives from both regulators are invited to Bad Eye Day Lobby at the House of Commons on 17 April, when they can hear first hand accounts from people they are supposed to protect!
If government ministers (and allegedly a few CQC employees fed by David Moulsdale) stopped taking backhanders and bothered to address this scandal, it's not a difficult task to collate the numbers of damaged refractive surgery patients turning to the NHS, as I discussed at a meeting with Moorfields Eye Hospital CEO and MD in September 2018.
They eventually agreed to this, but their successors, Martin Kuper and Louisa Wickham, have refused to engage with me, Dr Kuper not even having the courtesy to reply to any of my emails.
As for Louisa Wickham, whom I’ve met on four occasions over the years, when accompanying MBEF clients to their NHS consultations, she is fully aware of the problems caused by the unregulated refractive industry.
The first time we met, Louisa gave me permission to quote her stating that she would not risk having laser eye surgery because her eyes are too valuable.
Now in a position to help, why is she not doing so?
Tweedledum|Stephen Hannan not so pretty in Pink, Dr David Teenan in Lime, Dr Sajjad Mughal in Orange.
#blindedonthehighstreet #stormsasha
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