NHS Whistleblowers, a support group made up of current and former doctors, midwives and nurses, said workers should able to give evidence regarding an NHS 'culture detrimental to patient safety'.
A group representing hundreds of health workers has asked to contribute to the Lucy Letby inquiry, saying there is a need to challenge NHS culture around whistleblowing.
Now, NHS Whistleblowers has instructed Hudgell Solicitors to represent it, arguing there is a need to look at problems across the entire health service, not just in one trust. "Since the Francis Report in 2015, following the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, there has been a series of investigations into NHS trusts around patient safety where it has been revealed NHS staff have either been too scared to speak up or punished for speaking up.
The group said a recurring theme across NHS trusts is senior managers placing "reputational damage limitation ahead of patient and staff safety". "We feel that the fitness to practise process is being weaponised to silence whistleblowers and to punish those who have continued to escalate concerns. Healthcare regulators must get better skills to unpick this and assure further patient harm is not being risked in pursuit of such cases."
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