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Whistle blowing is every ones responsibility but they should be protected by the state and NHSdoi:10.1136/bmj.b2693Mr Amir NisarBMJ
Statutory protection, support from regulatory bodies and a culture change are requiredA decade after the scandal at Bristol Royal Infirmary1 whistleblowing is still hazardous to whistleblowers. A whistleblower is a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing. ...
The history of NHS whistleblowing The Bristol baby scandal of the 1990s is, for most, the seminal NHS scandal, partly for the scale of harm (at least 30-40 babies died) but also for the consequences for the whistleblower. Anaesthetist Steve Bolsin (now Professor Bolsin) was unable to ...
Firstly, NHS national whistleblowing policy at the time of Mr Pitman’s whistleblowing explicitly included zero tolerance of reprisal against whistleblowers: “We will not tolerate the harassment or victimisation of anyone raising a concern. Nor will we tolerate any attempt to bully you into not ...
NHS staff face reprisals for blowing the whistle on safetyWork, Public Concerns at
Sir Robert Francis QC. February 2015. (NHS Whistleblowing Report) Whistleblowers do not fare well in the NHS. This is one of the major indictments of management in the NHS: that it is inwards-looking, over-defensive and prone to destroy, by a variety of means, those who suggest that ...
The Committee has explained: "The essence of a whistleblowing system is that staff should be able to by-pass the direct management line, because that may well be the area about which their concerns arise, and that they should be able to go outside the organisation if they...
This may involve patent safety issues or when a patient's dignity is compromised. This is called whistleblowing. There are various examples of it. For example, patients left in their own urine and excreta without dignity, patient's food and water intake not cared properly or patients even ...
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