Medical Journals - Silent on Whistleblowing And here we are watching the Royal College of Nursing doing a fabulous job in support of nursing whistleblowers. We then look back to the medical profession and wonder what they have ever done in support of whistleblowers. Bolsin still remains in Australia. No one dares mention Peter Wilmshurst, Mike Tobin or Raj Mattu or the numerous other medical whistleblowers. Indeed, the medical profession have not asked Steve to return back to the UK.
From the RCN, these are the statistics
From the RCN, these are the statistics
"Fewer than half (46%) of nurses polled for the RCN felt confident their employer would protect them if they spoke up. Of those who had raised concerns (63% of the total), 49% had filled in patient safety incident forms while others had used different means"
Fewer than one in three (29%) nurses said their employer had taken immediate action to resolve the situation while 35% said no action was ever taken.
The BMJ continues to remain silent on the issue of "medical" [ not nursing] whistleblowers. The General Medical Council remains tight lipped about whistleblowers having slaughtered the likes of Robert Phipps and Shreedar Vaidya through their procedures.
The medical establishment should hold their head in shame. It is a sad day when so much is done for the nursing profession and nothing is done for the medical professionals who have whistleblown. Perhaps a nurses word in the end is of higher value than the doctors word. It appears so anyway.
Yes, and we spotted the Doctors Only website owner, having stuck the knife in Scot Jnr, he decided to ride the tide on the Undercover Nurse publicity. As the Common Purpose Doctors Only website is only too aware, they are quite happy to maliciously report their own medical whistleblowers to the GMC.
I believe the biggest problem with the medical profession is that they have never supported their whistleblowers but have watched them much like a spectacle. A medical whistleblower not only has the management chasing after them but starts to have the entire wrath of the medical profession pitted against them.
The way it works in the medical profession is this - you raise concerns, instead of addressing them, the Trust finds fault in you, then says there are some mental health issues, after that they over scrutinise your work and then forward the matter to NCAS or the General Medical Council. The GMC then ignores any concerns you have about negligence and proceeds to reverse the investigation on the whistleblower [ Phipps, Pal]. Phipps was sanctioned, I wasn't. The medical journals then ignore you, brush you to one side as an "uncomfortable personality" and hope that you will disappear. Most do their utmost to silence any concerns you may have about the system. Any medical whistleblower who has gone through the system, knows I am right. As for the BMA - they are as much use as a jellyfish out of water. The same applies to the MPS and MDU who have both remained silent again on the whistleblowing issues. These organisations assume that by being silent they will infact do themselves a favour and pretend the problem does not exist.
The above is known as the Ostritch effect.
The medical establishment should hold their head in shame. It is a sad day when so much is done for the nursing profession and nothing is done for the medical professionals who have whistleblown. Perhaps a nurses word in the end is of higher value than the doctors word. It appears so anyway.
Yes, and we spotted the Doctors Only website owner, having stuck the knife in Scot Jnr, he decided to ride the tide on the Undercover Nurse publicity. As the Common Purpose Doctors Only website is only too aware, they are quite happy to maliciously report their own medical whistleblowers to the GMC.
I believe the biggest problem with the medical profession is that they have never supported their whistleblowers but have watched them much like a spectacle. A medical whistleblower not only has the management chasing after them but starts to have the entire wrath of the medical profession pitted against them.
The way it works in the medical profession is this - you raise concerns, instead of addressing them, the Trust finds fault in you, then says there are some mental health issues, after that they over scrutinise your work and then forward the matter to NCAS or the General Medical Council. The GMC then ignores any concerns you have about negligence and proceeds to reverse the investigation on the whistleblower [ Phipps, Pal]. Phipps was sanctioned, I wasn't. The medical journals then ignore you, brush you to one side as an "uncomfortable personality" and hope that you will disappear. Most do their utmost to silence any concerns you may have about the system. Any medical whistleblower who has gone through the system, knows I am right. As for the BMA - they are as much use as a jellyfish out of water. The same applies to the MPS and MDU who have both remained silent again on the whistleblowing issues. These organisations assume that by being silent they will infact do themselves a favour and pretend the problem does not exist.
The above is known as the Ostritch effect.
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