Nurses afraid to 'whistleblow', meeting hears (From Bucks Free Press)
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Bucks nurses afraid to 'whistleblow', meeting hears
7:40am Friday 3rd February 2012 in Health By Lawrence Dunhill
Nurses afraid to 'whistleblow', meeting hears
NURSES are afraid to ‘whistleblow’ about possible problems on hospital wards, a meeting heard.
A woman who said she was a student nurse raised concerns at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust board meeting last week.
She suggested nurses are afraid of being bullied if they report problems, adding: “I’ve got it from good sources that those nurses are under pressures.”
Malcolm Griffiths, a non executive director at the trust, replied: “Firstly no one wants anyone to keep their mouths shut. If you know staff members that are concerned about something have them whistleblow....
“We clearly hear your message. We’ll be discussing further what you’re saying. If there’s a feeling people can’t whistleblow we want to hear that.”
Last August, Mr Griffiths told a board meeting there had been “very few” whistleblowing incidents within the trust. He said at the time: “There are two ways to take that...one is the negative view.”
Chief nurse Lynne Swiatczak told that meeting that staff do raise concerns, but not necessarily through formal whistleblowing policies.
Comments(2)
Joe Ordinary
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12:35pm Fri 3 Feb 12
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What she is stating may be correct but it is simply that, i.e. an unevidenced statement capable of being made by anyone at no personal cost.
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It would be much more helpful and productive if the person making the statement - or the BFP after appropriate investigation - were to state what the problems are associated with the whistleblowing proceedure / process currently being operated within the Bucks Hospital Trust.
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Once problems have been identified these can and should then be addressed so that neither nurses nor others who have observed adverse situations at a hospital experience difficulty reporting these adverse situations (whistleblowing).
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By the way I don't know of any normal person who "hate(s) going to --- hospital fearing for their very lives when they are hospitalised there because of the filth and disgusting status of the wards and general areas". Do you?
CarolHorner says...
10:27am Fri 3 Feb 12
This explains then why the public hate going to this hospital fearing for their very lives when they are hospitalised there because of the filth and disgusting status of the wards and general areas.
Another cover up.
Now the BBC will see this as a reason for having this hospital on its radar of programmes.