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Tag Archives: Character Assassination of Whistleblowers
Difficult Reflections on Certain Aspects of the NHS: Be Prepared to Look-Away Now (BBC News)
Summary You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Gosport hospital deaths: prescribed painkillers ‘shortened 456 lives’. London: BBC Health News, June 20th 2018. You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2018). Shipman, Bristol, Stafford, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Accountability, Accountability and Transparency, Adults at Risk of Harm, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageism, Attitudes to Ageing, Availability of Opioid Painkillers, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Baker Report, BBC News Hampshire and Isle of Wight, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Killed in Hospital, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Bureaucracy, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Cover-Ups), Closed Ranks Culture (Denial), Closed Ranks Culture (Determination Not to Know), Closed Ranks Culture (Misplaced Loyalty), Closing Ranks, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture and Leadership, Culture of Complacency, Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Culture, Diamorphine, Disregard for Human Life, Dr Katherine Sleeman: Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London, Failings in Care in Hospitals, Faith-Shattering NHS Scandals, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Fundamental Standards of Behaviour, Gosport Hospital Deaths: Timeline, Gosport Independent Panel, Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Gosport War Memorial Hospital: Report of the Gosport Independent Panel, Hampshire Constabulary, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Mortality, House of Commons, In-Hospital Mortality, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Prescribing of Painkillers, Institutionalised Determination Not to Know (Sir Brian Jarman: Allegation), Institutionalised Neglect, Institutionalised Unkindness, Matthew McClelland: Director of Fitness to Practise at Nursing and Midwifery Council, Negative Culture, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Norman Lamb: Former Liberal Democrat Health Minister, Organisational Culture, Painkillers, Parliamentarians, Patient Harm, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Peer Pressure, Postcode Lottery of Hospital Death Rates, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Premature Mortality, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventing Premature Mortality, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professor Richard Baker: Leicester University, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Sir John Strang: Director of National Addiction Centre at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, Rachel Power: Chief Executive of Patients Association, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Premature Mortality, Right Reverend James Jones KBE: Chair of Gosport Independent Panel, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Super-Strength Painkillers, Syringe Drivers: Opioid Delivery, Top-Down Managerial Culture, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Unnecessary In-Hospital Deaths, Unresponsive Culture, USA Opioid Epidemic, Values, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Warning Signs, Whistlelowing, Willful Blindness
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More on the NHS Culture of Openness: Lessons From Two Francis Inquiries (Department of Health)
Summary The Government has published a report explaining progress in the NHS since the Francis Inquiry report (February 2013) . It supports the full adoption, in principle, of Freedom to Speak Up review recommendations to protect whistleblowers who raise legitimate … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Assessing Risk of Harm (Not Just Past Harm), Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Berwick Review, Berwick Review of Patient Safety, Better Care for Older Patients With Dementia, Building Capability, Candour, Care Certificate, Cavendish Review, Centrally-Driven Proposals, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Clwyd and Hart Review Into Hospital Complaints, Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers, Commonwealth Fund, Compassion in Practice, Compassionate Care, Configuration of Services, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Culture Change, Culture Change in the NHS, Culture Change in the NHS: Lessons of Two Francis Inquiries, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Hospitals, Duty of Candour, EU Council’s Recommendations on Patient Safety and Health Care Associated Infections, Fit and Proper Persons Requirement for Directors, Francis Effect, Francis Inquiry, Francis Inquiry Report, Francis Report, Francis Report: Part of a Linked Set of Reports on Quality, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), Fundamental Standards, General Hospitals, General Medical Council (GMC), Government Response to Francis Inquiry Report, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Hard Truths, Health Education England Commission on Education and Training for Patient Safety, Health Education for Safety, Helene Donnelly OBE: Ambassador for Cultural Change at Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Honesty, Honesty and Transparency, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Incident Reporting, Initiatives and Reviews into Quality of Hospital Care 2012/13, James Titcombe: National Advisor on Patient Safety and Culture & Quality at Care Quality Commission, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Keogh Mortality Review, Listening to Patients, Listening to Staff, Local Patient Safety Collaboratives, Medical Schools Council, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Mistreatment of Whistleblowers, MyNHS Website: Comparing Safety Data, National Patient Safety Alerting System (NPSAS), NHS Culture, NHS England National Patient Safety Alerting System, NHS Leadership Academy’s Executive Fast Track Programme, NHS Litigation Authority, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, NHS Reform, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts in Special Measures: 18 Months On, Nurse Staffing Levels, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing Standards, Open and Honest Incident Reporting, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Outcome Metrics, Overbearing NHS Managerial Style, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives Programme, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient-Centred Leadership, Patients First and Foremost, Person-Centred Model of Care for Patients with Dementia, Preventing Poor Care, Professor Don Berwick, Professor Sir Mike Richards: Former Chief Inspector of Hospitals (CQC), Professor Sir Norman Williams: President of Royal College of Surgeons, Professor Steve Field: Former Chief Inspector of General Practice (CQC), Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons), Putting Patients First, Quality Improvement, Quality Standards, Quality: Above Money, Raising Concerns, Reactions to the Francis Inquiry Report, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Reporting Culture, Reporting Culture in the NHS, Review of NHS Complaints System, Safe Staffing, SAFE: Safety Action for England, Safety Action for England Team (SAFE), Safety and Quality Standards, Safety Metrics, Safety Surveillance, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Serious Incident Framework, Sign Up to Safety Campaign, Sir David Dalton: Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Sir Robert Francis QC, Speaking Up Charter, Special Measures, Staff Whistleblowing Rights, Staffing, Standards of Care, State of Care 2013/14 (CQC), Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Surgical Never Events Task Force Reference Group, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Technology Enhanced Learning, Transparency, Ward Staffing Levels, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the NHS
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Whistleblowing in the NHS: Light at the End of the Tunnel? (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary The review of NHS reporting culture led by Sir Robert Francis QC, which has been working achieve better protection of NHS whistleblowers who raise concerns, will report later today. The “Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up” review was expected … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS Employers, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged ACAS: Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (UK), Accountability, Adversarial and Defensive Culture, Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADRs), Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Groups, Blacklisting, Blacklisting and Kangaroo Courts, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Compromise Agreements, Confidentiality Clauses, Continuous Improvement, Coordinated Regulatory Action, CQC Recognition of Well-Led Organisations, Culture Change, Culture Free From Bullying, Culture of Raising Concerns, Culture of Reflective Practice, Culture of Safety, Culture of Valuing Staff, Culture of Visible Leadership, Defensive Leadership, Duty of Candour (DoC), Eight Step Model (Acronym: EVIDENCE) for Raising and Escalating Concerns: Escal8, Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA), Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, Escal8: Model for Raising and Escalating Concerns, EVIDENCE: Mnemonic for Escal8 - Eight Step Model for Raising and Escalating Concerns, Extending Legal Protection, External Review, FPPT: Fit and Proper Person Test, Francis Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 10: Training, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 11: Support, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 12: Support to Find Alternative Employment in the NHS, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 13: Transparency, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 14: Accountability, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 15: External Review, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 16: Coordinated Regulatory Action, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 17: Recognition of Organisations, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 18: Students and Trainees, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 19: Primary Care, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 1: Culture of Safety, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 20: Legal Protection, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 2: Culture of Raising Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 4: Culture of Visible Leadership, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 5: Culture of Valuing Staff, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 6: Culture of Reflective Practice, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 7: Raising and Reporting Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 8: Investigations, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 9: Mediation and Dispute Resolution, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? 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Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up: Francis to Review Whistleblowing in the NHS (Department of Health / NHS England)
Summary Sir Robert Francis QC is leading a review of NHS reporting culture to ensure better protection of NHS whistleblowers who speak out in the public interest. The aim of this review, called “Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up: An … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, Avoidable Harm, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Central London Community Healthcare Trust, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Culture Change, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Honesty, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Incident Reporting, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Mistreatment of Whistleblowers, National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), NHS Culture, NHS Litigation Authority, NHS Nottingham University Hospitals, North Bristol NHS Trust, NRLS Under-Reporting, Open and Honest Care: Driving Improvement, Open and Honest Incident Reporting, Open Culture, Openness, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Alerts, Patient Safety Incidents, PIDA: Public Interest Disclosure Act, Positive Culture, Potential Under-Reporting of Patient Safety Incidents to NRLS, Potential Under-Reporting to the NRLS, Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, Public Interest Disclosures, Raising Concerns, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Reporting Culture, Reporting Culture in the NHS, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, SAFE Team: Safety Action for England Team, Safety Reporting, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT), Seven Safety Indicators (NHS Choices), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sign up to Safety, Sign Up to Safety Campaign, Sir David Dalton: Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Sir Robert Francis QC, Staffordshire and Stoke Trent Partnership Trust, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing in the NHS
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Whistleblowing in the NHS: Theory Versus Practice? (BBC News / Whistleblowing Helpline / NAO / SCIE)
Summary Dr Raj Mattu, a heart specialist was dismissed by University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2010, after almost a decade of alleged unfair treatment by his employers, since exposing the cases of two patients who had … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, In the News, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged BBC Health News, BBC News: Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Leadership, Dr Raj Mattu (Consultant), Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Flowchart of Whistleblowing Process, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Goldman Sachs, Harassment of Whistleblowers, HMRC, Honesty, House of Commons, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Candour, Local Ward Cultures, Margaret Hodge, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, National Audit Office (NAO), Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Hospitals Complaints System, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, Parliamentarians, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Incidents, Patients First and Foremost, Public Accounts Committee, Public Concern at Work, Public Disclosure Act (1988), Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), Putting Patients First, Qualtrics, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Around Deaths, Raising Concerns Policy, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, SCIE Social Care TV, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Code of Conduct, Social Care Commitment, Social Care TV, Speaking Out, Staff Awareness, Stages in Raising Concerns, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector, Whistleblowing In the Wind, Whistleblowing Policy, Winterbourne View Hospital, Workplace Culture, Zero Tolerance Approaches
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