Mary Doherty

Mary

Doherty

United Kingdom

I have worked as a screening programme manager and have been appalled when raising patient safety concerns how these were not deemed serious by managers. It is as though no-one can raise issues about practice without that person being viewed as having personal relationship issues with that member of staff. I feel there is a lack of professional responsibility, accountability and transparency among the nursing profession as this played into a review with my late mother’s care in 2005. Having worked for nearly 40 years in the hospital environment I believe incidents should be properly investigated without real lessons learned. Thematic reviews should take place as a matter of regularity to measure if lessons are being learnt.

University of Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Programme Manager