Due diligence Jane Plant Dove Clinic

Before a business takeover it is said that the only way you can determine if it's right and what the future looks like is by conducting such an exhaustive due diligence investigation that by the time you're done you'll know more about the business than the current owner does.

I have done it in business, so why not for Jane Plant's cancer cure? In summary the more I look the more I like her ideas....

The following is not a full detailed investigation, but records some of my research and thoughts. I still like Jane's ideas, and question why the NHS seem to overlook them.

1: Professor Jane Plant's background. It could be said that one should only "trade" on relevant qualifications. Some criticise her use of the title doctor as her doctorate is in geology / earth sciences rather than medicine. Is this fair? I think not as further investigation shows she worked for a time with Chinese doctors to study health effects of growing food in the selenium deficient Chinese soils. So she has looked at health effects of geology in a team with medical doctors.

2: Her background is one of personal success, she has a CBE etc, and has survived breast cancer for 20 years so far.

3: I rate her scientific approach. She quotes peer reviewed scientific research, not too many "unproven health food fads"

I then went on to look at one of her recent employments at the Dove Clinic, a private clinic specialising in cancer care. I am not endorsing this clinic, and have never used it, but I think it important to understand the clinic to assess her abilities.

There are publicly available reviews of the clinic. Their private audit gives me great confidence, the government review so misses the point that I think I see why our cancer care is so appalling...

4: The Dove Clinic audit. It covers 227 cancer cases. The horror of cancer brought tears to my eyes. 52 folk died within 6 weeks of seeing them from advanced metastases. I believe this does not reflect on the Dove clinic, more that the patients saw them too late as a last resort.

Of those treated for 4 months or more there were many deaths, but NOT ONE BEFORE NHS predictions. many had at least double the predicted life span, say 6 months extends to 14 months. So they do NO HARM, unlike some NHS treatments which are sometimes worse than a placebo (see my earlier post on Placebo).

The clinic also concentrates on quality of life rather than length, so in keeping with my views as a Christian, after all death is not a failure or defeat.

5: The government's Healthcare Commission. How do they audit a cancer clinic that I think is ten times as effective than many NHS treatments, and may even have a cure for some cancers? Their first report I can find is here. It is a 43 page report making 27 recommendations to improve the service...I look for items such as death and cure to see the effectiveness, NOTHING!!!!!! So the government inspectors look at cleanliness of hand basins and loos but do not look for cancer cures, or deaths prevented.

What burdens do I find our government inspectors lay on the organisation which employs some of the UK's leading doctors? I quote a few of their findings:

a) the clinic needs a documented procedure to handle patient deaths....... but they have had NO DEATHS on site, that is the point, it is an effective outpatient hospital a point which seems to be missed by the government inspectors.

b) a written human resource policy needs to be developed...... why? They employ the doctors who have the answers, what more do we need? The NHS have such written policies and employ doctors who dare I say so often fail.

c) written policies were needed on the prevention of harassment and bullying......what? This is an upmarket private clinic, patients don't return if they are not satisfied or bullied...

So if the government watchdog can so miss the important data yet burden a leading clinic with what I see as 27 irrelevant recommendations maybe that is why the NHS is failing to provide effective cancer treatment. They cannot see the wood for the trees. Did Jane leave the clinic to escape such bureaucracy?