Leaders need to do more to support nurses and other healthcare staff when they speak up, and to protect them from retaliation if they raise concerns with Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, a report has warned. The annual report of the National Guardian for the NHS for 2021-22 suggests the…
Every nurse must feel safe to raise concerns at work and know they will be heard, the nurse appointed to lead the speak up agenda in England has urged in her first interview with Nursing Times since taking on the national role. Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark said it was “really concerning”…
Nurses are still facing major barriers to speaking up, with some being actively silenced by their employers, a Nursing Times investigation has revealed. We have found examples of nurses being obstructed from raising concerns within the workplace, via social media and other external routes. A community nurse was told they…
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is leading the way in many things and, one thing is for sure, we want colleagues to feel able to speak up as we deliver, strive and innovate our way through some tough times. My personal belief is that with a real and embedded…
The pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic could help fuel another major care scandal if warning signs are missed and staff concerns are ignored, a leading nurse advocate for workplace openness has warned. Helené Donnelly, a nurse who was threatened by colleagues after speaking out during one of the biggest care…
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The number of nurses blowing the whistle over concerns in their workplace has gone up by 68% over two years, new figures reveal. In 2018-19, nurses raised 3,728 complaints with their independent Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, a rise from 2,223 the previous year. “Our goal is to make speaking…
A new law will be introduced in England to ensure nurses who raise concerns are heard in the wake of the Gosport scandal.
The legislation will make it mandatory for all NHS trusts to publish yearly reports about how they handled cases of staff speaking up. ”Nursing staff…were marginalised, and this…
Jeremy Hunt has acknowledged to nurse leaders in England that the NHS workforce is his “biggest worry” and that the fall since last year in the number of nursing staff is of particular concern.
He cited the government’s decision to scrap the bursary for student nurses and replace it with loans…
GPs are set to be the latest group of employers to appoint whistleblowing guardians due to a funding boost by NHS England to expand the speaking up programme.
In addition, pressure will be applied by national body NHS England to independent providers of NHS services that do not currently have guardians…
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