Having become unemployed through having three years of NMC "practice conditions" applied to my registration for "complaining without the victim of 9 hours of blood-smeared seclusion room abuse's consent" I was offered a temporary post at a small independent nursing home in Middlesbrough that has had personal and regulator complaints against it over the years. It didn't even ask for references or a CRB check. The manager was going on sick leave. I accepted and immediately noticed that residents were not being properly cared for eg basic hygiene used during toileting.. no gloves or parons used.. impatient feeding..  much telling off.. some aggressive staff etc. I tried to pave way with a little Zeiler & Jervey type feeding training. Completely rejected in favour of usual passive speed feeding. A resident became ill and confined to bed and I noticed food fluids untouched on her tray for return to kitchen. When I mentioned the reply was "oh, she doesn't want it" I therefore took over and demonstrated slow application.. touching lips with food.. establishing taste.. little by little.. completed in 30 minutes. I asked a carer to warm some tea back up.. she replied "later" and walked off with no intention to comply and I had to take complete responsibility for feeding and hydrating. Slowly the lady recovered and got her strength back. I only lasted five weeks until the manager returned briefed by regulars and was very unpleasant. I looked up owner and visited and sent a statement to social services. I was contacted by former staff who described their similar experiences and worse with one old lady in a wheelchair repeatedly shut in an empty bedroom for calling "help me, help me". Five residents had died in the previous three months during sickness and diarrhea outbreaks and another lady the previous summer admitted in good health for short term care who died a month later on a hospital drip. Middlesbrough social services disinterested as previously in respect of the bloodied seclusion room at Roseberry Park Hospital although described clearly in the care record. So I wrote another lengthy report outlining residents chronic 12 month weight losses and the weight increase of one lady in response to the Zeiler & Jervey feeding application. I left.. abruptly. Three months later a letter from the NMC arrived. They've received a referral from the home and are investigating. The CQC ring me. They've rung to confirm the truth of my Roseberry Park Hospital complaints both the incidents and the whitewash review after complaining and was fired for looking at the victims file for "too long". The NMC write again and declare their intention to prosecute five charges reduced from many some very ludicrous allegations against me. One alleged that I intended to put a resident in a karate suit to lay on the floor for a "kick about". Another suggested that a physically disabled resident with full capacity who had never been taken out for a walk in her wheelchair since admission years previously who had eagerly confirmed their interest in going for a walk had been "taken out with wet hair". As a behavior therapist I was interested to note all this and observe how the NMC itself appeared to be behaving. At that stage matters were quite laughable and the "charges" ridiculous until it started to become apparent that the NMC was deadly serious. A year later I am convicted of charges that have required no corroboration other than the allegation of the individual staff who alleged it. Thomas Cromwell would be proud. The wheelchair walk and wet hair has been craftily developed by an eager young NMC solicitor into a "consent" issue. Unlike the original description it is now suggested that the wheelchair resident expressly refused to go out but was forced along with the carer to go. The carer witness's subsequent witness stand performance was described by the NMC as "open and compelling". Further questions reveal that the 60 year old wheelchair lady who had gained 7% body weight during my time there had died four months later. Further questioning was curtailed. In the meantime six months later I managed to get another job at a 30 bedded male mental health rehab unit. It was a bit like stepping back to 1975 with patients languishing around corridors laying on carpets waiting to be taken to the local shop by purple-clad support worker for 'fags and coke' only to return and sit out in the crowded smoking hut whilst the lone support worker gazed bored into space smoking his own role-up awaiting the arrival of similar colleagues. The "gym" "computer room" and "ADL (activities of daily living) kitchen" proudly featured in the brochure empty and unavailable because of requiring staff for "supervision". I survived eight weeks until the sudden occurrence of a back-of-the-neck marching restraint of a delightful patient by a lone aggressive support worker and inserted into bedroom seclusion which prompted me to hard action. I complained directly with a meeting with the manager and head of care and despite ensuring that I had up-to-date bi-weekly positive appraisals over and above what the NMC required, yes that's right.. I was immediately fired and referred to the NMC for allegedly "not following service policy" in relation to bringing the complaint. Now this service knew how to discredit whistle blowers. Despite the signing of up-to-date appraisals the manager emailed staff with extended descriptions of discrediting allegations in an appeal for more. The best was.. "commented during a pop video saying 'Cor.. look at the tits on that.. what you could do with them, eh?'" Three months later the NMC decide that yes there is a case to answer. However it included my completed appraisal records whose highlighted positive findings are now reversed when the highlighting was photocopied and so redacted instead. Surely the £700 a day 'investigation' solicitor realized this and surely the NMC case-management team who decided to press charges noticed immediately? The NMC case management team declared that there was no substance to my complaint and that the service's own internal inquiry found nothing untoward so therefore was not compelled to take any action. Indeed that WHAT HAPPENED in respect of my complaint was pre-planned for the purpose of providing patients with 'GUIDANCE' except that isn't what the internal inquiry did find. It accepted that one support worker acted against company policy and restrained by himself. He was therefore sent for additional training. Is the NMC as well as providing a free whistleblower discrediting service also availing its powers to protect services who have already acknowledged wrongdoing by creating false findings? Surely No More Corruption?