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    An excellent blog which tells it as it is, your clear understanding of why staff can’t or will not speak up reads like the first chapter of many whistleblower biographies. We all begin the same way; those of us who wish to do our duty and protect patients from harm, or to stop harm that we can see is already happening speak up in the hope that practices will improve. It is then that we find that what we thought was a management culture which has caring, safety and respect at its heart is, in fact, nothing of the sort. The flimsy structures which hold together many NHS senior management teams are often headed by narcissists and bullies who build a structure of sycophants and ‘yes men’ around them to preserve their position. There can be no dissenting, no admission of problems or bad practice and this usually results in the removal of both the person raising concerns and the manager who acknowledged it. Instead the concern is met with denial or if reported to the FTSUG, the person who reports will be told that it will be dealt with confidentially and that they no longer need to worry about it; management will now have this person in their sights, in true ‘Big Brother’ fashion their card is marked. The brave blogger above will be ‘known’ and he or she must take care as any further suggestions that they will follow up their concerns or raise new ones will set in motion a chain of events which will destroy their career and cause them serious psychological harm; they will be ostracised and vilified in their own department, denied opportunities for training and promotion and excluded from decision-making, meetings and making clinical contributions. This is not a figment of my imagination but a true scenario played out and endured by many healthcare professionals at all levels in the NHS, the experience of myself and many others. A final word of warning to our blogger who believes the BMA will support him or her, professional bodies have failed many in the past and have very close allegiances with senior NHS managers, it is more likely you will be sacrificed.
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