All Whistleblowers articles – Page 26
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NewsBaby P whistleblower to sue GOSH
A senior doctor who claimed Baby P could have been saved if her warnings had been heeded is suing the NHS for compensation, it has been revealed.
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NewsCQC chair appointment endorsed
The Commons health select committee has endorsed the appointment of Dame Jo Williams as Care Quality Commission chair.
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NewsEx Cornwall chief exec wins £1.2m compensation
The former chief executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has been awarded £1.2m in compensation for unfair dismissal over whistleblowing.
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS trusts may soon be courting oligarchs
A front page on the financial arrangements of foundation trusts? Well it wasn’t likely to be The Sun.
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NewsNHS 'silences' 170 whistleblowers
A total of 170 whistleblowing doctors have been made to sign a confidentiality contract in the past 10 years, according to information passed to Channel 4 News and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
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NewsBad practice reporting guide published
A new guide has been made available to employers in the NHS that offers advice on how to ensure staff can report bad practice.
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CommentMichael White on NHS reorganisation
I am very fond of my regular GPs. But Dr A treats the NHS’s budget cautiously, as if it was his own life savings, while Dr B is usually quite happy to fork out on my behalf.
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NewsLansley orders probe into chief's sacking
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has ordered an investigation into NHS South West’s role in the sacking of a trust chief executive.
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NewsBMA calls for more protection against doctor victimisation
Doctors fear their careers may be jeopardised if they raise concerns about patient care, medical chiefs have said.
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NewsCornwall trust chief unfairly dismissed after 'irritating' SHA, tribunal rules
A former trust chief executive was unfairly dismissed when he raised concerns about a controversial cancer reconfiguration, an employment tribunal has found.
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NewsCampaigning doctor loses seat
Richard Taylor, who took Wyre Forest in 2001, pledging to fight the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital, has been defeated by the Conservatives.
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NewsSacked NHS chief launches unfair dismissal claim
An NHS chief executive sacked for swearing too much at work is launching a claim for unfair dismissal, he has confirmed.
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NewsHospital staff at risk of 'compassion fatigue'
Being asked to treat patients in unsuitable conditions could make nurses desensitised to poor care, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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NewsLincolnshire trust chief exec sacked for swearing
The chief executive of an acute trust has been sacked for swearing in meetings, seven months after he went on sick leave with stress.
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News'Bullied' NHS whistleblower wins claim
An employment tribunal has ruled in favour of a south London cancer specialist who claimed he had been bullied and harassed after expressing concern over NHS cost-cutting measures.
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NewsNurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to be more “proactive” in its policing of poor nursing care, including carrying out inspections of trusts, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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CommentPete Mason on lessons for the NHS from hazardous industries
The NHS and hazardous industries, such as aviation, often use the Swiss cheese model of accident causation, or the “cumulative act effect”.
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NewsNMC calls on government to help whistleblowers
Nurses and midwives are not reporting poor care because of bad whistleblowing procedures, the chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has said.
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NewsTrust faces bad practice allegations
A senior NHS cancer specialist was branded a trouble-making whistleblower and effectively sacked after alleging bad practices at a London hospital, he will claim.
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NewsTrusts still fail to give whistleblowers a voice
More than a decade after trusts were told to give staff ‘maximum freedom of speech’, health workers are still scared to raise concerns about care. We look at why whistleblowers are not getting the protection they deserve