Whistle blowing

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1. Presentation slides from Hugh Wilkins on 'Speaking up safely'

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   • Whistleblowing
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     • Whistleblowing
     • Organisational culture

   By Patient Safety Learning, 29 May

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   • 29 May

2. Whistleblownout

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   • Speaking up
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     • Medication
     • Pain
     • Patient harmed
     • Ireland

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 March

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   • 27 March

3. Vindicated whistleblower says doctors should not be fearful of raising safety concerns (16 January 2026)

   • Whistleblowing
   • Speaking up

   By Mark Hughes, 19 January

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   • 19 January

4. The whistleblower playbook

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     • Organisational culture
     • Psychological safety
     • Communication
     • Leadership
     • Organisation / service factors

   By Patient Safety Learning, 26 June, 2025

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   • Comment by Greg Swarbrick
   • 22 January

5. Speaking up as an agency nurse cost me my career

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   • Whistleblowing
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     • Nurse
     • Reporting
     • Organisational culture
     • Staff safety
     • Legal issue

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 9 April, 2025

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   • 9 April, 2025

6. The handling by the General Medical Council of cases involving whistleblowers - The Hooper Review (19 March 2015)

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     • Legal issue
     • Doctor
     • Regulatory issue

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 20 February, 2025

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   • 20 February, 2025

7. The cost of whistleblowing. Assessing the cost of whistleblowing failures to the public purse (PROTECT, February 2025)

   • Whistleblowing
   • Speaking up

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 February, 2025

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   • 6 February, 2025

8. Speaking up and whistleblowing: Where to get information and support

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   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 January, 2025

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   • 15 January, 2025

9. Protecting patients (20 March 2004)

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     • Medicine - Palliative
     • Medication
     • Investigation
     • Patient harmed

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 December, 2024

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   • 16 December, 2024

10. Abusive medical research, whistleblowers, and institutional power (21 September 2024)

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      • Research
      • Transparency

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 October, 2024

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    • 17 October, 2024

11. Nursing & Midwifery Council: Whistleblowing disclosures report 2024 (30 September 2024)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 October, 2024

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    • 1 October, 2024

12. Whistleblowing. Prescribed persons guidance (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, April 2017)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 24 September, 2024

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    • 24 September, 2024

13. The Problem with Saying “My Door Is Always Open” (9 March 2017)

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    • Staff safety
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      • Staff safety
      • Leadership

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 16 September, 2024

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    • 16 September, 2024

14. Speaking up on safety: Understanding the employers' playbook (The Hospital Doctors' Union)

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    • Staff safety
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    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 September, 2024

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    • 13 September, 2024

15. The Protection for Whistleblowing Bill & the Office of the Whistleblower (FAQs)

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 10 June, 2024

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    • 10 June, 2024

16. Safe spaces: “I’m not a whistleblower, I was doing my duty as a doctor”

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    • Organisational culture
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      • Parenteral nutrition

    By Annabel, 22 May, 2024

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    • Comment by Patient_Safety_Learning
    • 23 May, 2024

17. “I was told not to worry about safety features—the priority was getting the device out immediately.” An anonymous account of speaking up in medtech

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      • Innovation
      • Medical device / equipment
      • Surgery - Cardiothoracic
      • Safety process
      • Staff safety

    By Anonymous, 20 May, 2024

    • 1 comment
    • 1,548 views
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    • Comment by Judy Walker
    • 28 May, 2024

18. The Daily T: Whistleblowers hounded out of the NHS (16 May 2024)

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    • Staff support
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      • Speaking up

    By Mark Hughes, 17 May, 2024

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    • 17 May, 2024

19. ‘Thousands’ of whistleblowing NHS staff are being silenced as bosses spend millions covering scandal (GB News, 16 May 2024)

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    By Mark Hughes, 17 May, 2024

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    • 660 views
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    • 17 May, 2024

20. Parrhesia Tapes: Whistleblowing in the NHS (20 March 2024)

    • Whistleblowing
    • Diagnostic error
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      • Diagnostic error
      • Speaking up
      • Bullying
      • Medicine - Oncology
      • Organisational culture
      • Radiology

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 March, 2024

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    • 27 March, 2024

21. Independent National Whistleblowing Officer: Findings from NHS Boards’ annual whistleblowing reporting 2022-23 (11 March 2024)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 21 March, 2024

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    • 21 March, 2024

22. Independent National Whistleblowing Office (Scotland)

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      • Staff support
      • Organisational culture
      • Standards

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 March, 2024

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    • 19 March, 2024

23. The systemic silent killer – ending the stigma around whistleblowing in healthcare (13 October 2023)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 March, 2024

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    • 19 March, 2024

24. Shoot the messenger: How NHS whistleblowers are silenced and sacked (6 March 2024)

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      • Speaking up
      • Duty of Candour
      • Transparency
      • Staff safety
      • Culture of fear

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 March, 2024

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    • 16 March, 2024

25. Whistleblower accuses medical tech giant Medtronic of putting ‘profit before patients’ (31 January 2024)

    • Medical device
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      • Whistleblowing
      • Speaking up
      • Transparency
      • Reporting
      • Pharma / Life sciences

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 February, 2024

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    • 28 February, 2024