BBC Health Corrspondent Michele Paduano has this evening issued an angry statment to local news outlets, including Vale Mail, criticising the local health service and police for hiding the fact that a gun was used in an assault at a Shard End doctor’s surgery earlier today. This afternoon, the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust sent out a press release confirming that an incident had taken place at a GP practice in Shard End (The Harlequin), causing the surgery to be closed for a short while. The statement assured everyone that nobody was hurt, and that the incident had been dealt with. BBC reporter Michele Paduano’s subsequent angry statement slams the police and the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust for deliberately misleading the public and trying to ‘bury’ the details of the story. According to Mr Paduano, the police denied that a gun had been used. Mr Paduano says: ” I think it is symptomatic of how the NHS media machine manipulates reality. ………as a representation and record of what actually happened, it is both useless and factually incorrect… this example is symptomatic of a disease that has infested our public bodies.”
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