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- Type 1
Whistleblowers have been promised changes to support them but many people still worry about speaking out.
In July 2010, when Anna Blackburn started work for an Oxford GP, she found a backlog of hundreds of emails and test results. She believed these had not been acted on, potentially causing serious harm to patients.
Blackburn, a practice nurse for three decades, complained to NHS Oxfordshire primary care trust. The trust suspended the practice's sole GP, Mark Huckstep, soon afterwards and he was also suspended by the General Medical Council for 18 months in 2012, before he voluntarily removed himself from its register.
But while Huckstep is no longer a GMC-registered doctor, Blackburn no longer nurses in Oxfordshire. She resigned following arguments with a manager brought in by the trust to run the practice, then lost a constructive dismissal case against the since-disbanded trust; as GPs are independent contractors, it had not directly employed her.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/dec/09/duty-candour-whistleblowing-pervades-nhs
In July 2010, when Anna Blackburn started work for an Oxford GP, she found a backlog of hundreds of emails and test results. She believed these had not been acted on, potentially causing serious harm to patients.
Blackburn, a practice nurse for three decades, complained to NHS Oxfordshire primary care trust. The trust suspended the practice's sole GP, Mark Huckstep, soon afterwards and he was also suspended by the General Medical Council for 18 months in 2012, before he voluntarily removed himself from its register.
But while Huckstep is no longer a GMC-registered doctor, Blackburn no longer nurses in Oxfordshire. She resigned following arguments with a manager brought in by the trust to run the practice, then lost a constructive dismissal case against the since-disbanded trust; as GPs are independent contractors, it had not directly employed her.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/dec/09/duty-candour-whistleblowing-pervades-nhs