Exposing NHS crisis wrecked my career, says junior doctor

[Northerner]

A junior doctor who raised concerns over staffing levels claims his career has been ruined by a lack of protection for whistleblowers.

Dr Chris Day was working overnight in January 2014 when two locum doctors failed to turn up. He had to cover other wards and A&E and reported his concerns to managers.

Since his one-year placement at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Woolwich, South-East London, ended he has failed to find permanent work.

He is now awaiting an employment tribunal ruling after bringing a claim for unfair dismissal and whistleblowing detriment against Health Education England (HEE) and Lewisham Greenwich NHS Trusts.

Dr Day, 31, claims that HEE effectively acts as an employment agency for junior doctors but is not covered by employment law, leaving whistleblowers in a vulnerable position.

The outcome of his case could have a massive impact on whether the NHS’s 54,000 junior doctors dare risk their jobs by raising safety concerns.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...elieves-little-protection-whistleblowers.html

 

[trophywench]

I agree - Coventry finally had to settle with the Heart Consultant they suspended following him doing the same things - he and the BMA?MDU were fighting them every step of the way - they would NOT deal with it properly at all. Disgusting way to treat qualified people acting correctly.

Barstewards, there's nowt wrong with the NHS medical staff - but the Admin STINKS.

 

[AndBreathe]

I agree - Coventry finally had to settle with the Heart Consultant they suspended following him doing the same things - he and the BMA?MDU were fighting them every step of the way - they would NOT deal with it properly at all. Disgusting way to treat qualified people acting correctly.

Barstewards, there's nowt wrong with the NHS medical staff - but the Admin STINKS.

Some clinical staff to clinical staff treatment is also appalling, but I won't go into detail.

For the avoidance of doubt, this was not me, but I have seen the documentary evidence, provided by the NHS, who then denied such papers existed.

That didn't end well,..... For those telling fibs.

 

[trophywench]

To try and cheer us all up a bit - we happened to hear some of The Jeremy Vine show at lunchtime since we had just left the hosp for an apt for Pete and were by this time in B&Q's carpark (gone there after the hosp to buy paint - Yay! long overdue) (it was a good apt LOL, did you guess that?) and stayed in the car in order to finish listening to it.

The lady on the phone, Welsh and now 67, was the first baby ever born in the NHS - at 00.01 on 5th July 1948. Her mom was one of the eldest of a large brood whose own mother had died still in her 30s with stomach cancer, sans NHS and unable to afford neither medical care nor pain relief, surrounded by her 7 children. Aneura (guess who she was christened after?) remembered her mother recalling how SHE had had to bring up her siblings. The result of a 10-hour labour - the doctor and midwife instead of telling her mom to 'push' - and she wanted to! - were begging her to 'Hang on!' - so she herself WOULD be born in the NHS !

I tell you - Aneurin himself could have done far far worse - looking for a future representative of his own views.

What a very sensible lady his namesake is. No tears No drama - but told it as it really was, has been and is becoming - which is the only one that scares her.