Whistleblowing: Why its dangerous
div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_srKLQ9PUso4/Se3pHcS9riI/AAAAAAAAAhw/_ivwjU–7fg/s1600-h/wistle.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_srKLQ9PUso4/Se3pHcS9riI/AAAAAAAAAhw/_ivwjU–7fg/s400/wistle.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327170248313253410″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”span style=”font-style: italic;”Don’t even blow there!/spanbr //span/divbr /Alan Johnson is a href=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5051522/Mouse-droppings-found-in-hospital-operating-theatre.html”quoted/a as saying, span style=”font-style: italic;”“”I don’t understand why clinicians whose primary role is the safety of their patients are somehow concerned about whistle-blowing. I can’t understand it, quite frankly.”br //spanbr /Well let’s answer him.br /br /In the NHS the senior management of trusts now have the right to a href=”http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/Specialist-doctor-sacked-by-hospital.4435536.jp”sack/a a href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3701548.stm”doctors/a, and a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055592/Heart-doctor-sacked-branded-fraudster-saving-elderly-patients-life-private-equipment.html”use this/a a href=”http://www.drrant.net/2006/08/dr-otto-chan.html%20″right/a freely. It happens a href=”http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/hospital-bosses-blasted-over-doctors-sacking/418709.aspx”abroad /atoo.br /br /Senior management regards the bearers of bad news as unwelcome, disloyal, and untrustworthy. They are not “one of us” They are one of them, and dangerous. Trust managers fear the DH or exposure in the local a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jul/30/health.medicineandhealth”newspaper/a. Nothing else. The kindest term they will use for a whistle blower is “nuisance.”br /br /div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Money/Pix/pictures/2008/11/14/WhistleBlower460.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 276px;” src=”http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Money/Pix/pictures/2008/11/14/WhistleBlower460.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”span style=”font-style: italic;”Give a little whistle!/span/span/divbr /br /The default style of NHS senior management is span style=”font-weight: bold;”bullying/span (shut up), span style=”font-weight: bold;”bluster/span (talking is communicating) and span style=”font-weight: bold;”bravado/span (hope I don’t get found out before I get parachuted out of here).br /br /NHS senior management wants everything to look Ok, to get its foundation status, and not to get found out as incompetent. As all NHS management is incompetent maintaining the illusion of competence is difficult, but a top priority. Whistle blowers threaten this and must be eliminated.br /br /That’s why Dr Steve Bolsin ended up working in Australia.br /br /That’s why a href=”http://www.ward87.blogspot.com/”Dr Pal/a now cries in the wilderness.br /br /Whistle blowers are not welcome in the NHS, the no-blame culture means keep quiet and we won’t blame you…unless it’s convenient for us, and that patients continue to be harmed.br /br /The no blame culture, and the organisation with a memory, that makes amends, and learns from mistakes is a total fiction.br /br /In the NHS there are vicious blame games afoot, and shooting the messenger is one strategy the management use to get a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/jul/30/health.medicineandhealth”unwelcome information/a off their patch.br /br /And professional bodies such as GMC and GTC will not stand up for whistle blowers, nor a href=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5048998/Science-teacher-found-guilty-of-misconduct-for-Channel-4-undercover-filming.html”allow a public interest defence./abr /br /div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://www.seniorbrigade.com/health_care/images/abc_gma_elder_edit_071016_ms_000.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 413px; height: 310px;” src=”http://www.seniorbrigade.com/health_care/images/abc_gma_elder_edit_071016_ms_000.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-style: italic;font-size:85%;” Smile: You’re on Candid Camera!br //span/divbr /It’s not just doctors is it? Anyone, who’s not spent the last week in contemplation of their own haemorrhoids, will have heard about thespan style=”font-style: italic;” /spana href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8002559.stm”span style=”font-style: italic;”‘Panorama’/span nurse who got struck off/a. The irony is that her striking off has garnered more attention from the press than the disgusting abuse that she uncovered in the places where she worked.br /br /So, hidden camera work might not be listed in the ’span style=”font-style: italic;”professional duties/span’ of a nurse, and she might have jumped a few rungs of the ladder (perhaps the fact that she felt such a lack of confidence in the ‘proper pathways’ should be the most telling aspect of this sorry affair) , but sometimes the ends do justify the means. After all, isn’t that how modern politicians reconcile their nauseating, self-interested, subservience and lack of independent thoughts or actions?br /br /Alan Johnson wonders why whistle blowers are scared. Come on Alan. You are an ex-union man and you know the games employers play. The NHS shows all of them how to play at the highest level, and can rightfully revel in its status as one of the worlds most opaque, arbitrary and vindictive employers.br /br /Are you showing false naivete here? Or are you simply turning into another dissembling boss?div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28089527-2381570571670075665?l=www.drrant.net’//div
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