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To Board of NHS England and the UK government,

Senior NHS management is spending thousands of pounds vilifying doctors instead of funding our crumbling NHS. Taxpayers money should stop being wasted on persecuting NHS whistleblowers who are trying to raise concerns about patient safety.

For example, Dr Chris Day raised concerns about understaffing in an ITU. Instead of genuinely investigating his concerns, the NHS has spent more than £700k of public money in persecuting him in a case which is still ongoing. And in 1998 Dr Raj Mattu raised patient safety concerns and was subjected to a 12-year “witch-hunt” and even branded as a ’rapist’. His whistleblowing legal case was upheld by an employment tribunal but the NHS Trust spent £10 million of taxpayers’ money in defending the indefensible and persecuting the doctor.

This is not new. NHS management has a history and a legacy of persecuting whistle-blowers. This is evidenced by the Gosport hospital scandal, Sir Robert Francis Report, Sir Anthony Hooper Report. There are ongoing NHS litigations going on against NHS whistleblowing doctors. It is reported that Dr Usha Prasad, Dr Mansoor Foroughi, Dr Krishna Singh raised patient safety concerns, and were witch-hunted. Their employment tribunal cases are still ongoing, all thanks to the unrestricted access to taxpayers money.

So how come the NHS trusts are having limitless tax-payers money to fund barristers to fight whistle-blowers in employment tribunal cases? These barristers persecute NHS whistleblowers causing maximum financial and emotional pressure on the whistleblower designed to encourage them to withdraw their case The barristers can often charge £525 an hour which is double the fees of an NHS Consultant doctor.

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The list of NHS whistleblowers who are persecuted goes on and even NHS England admits that its staff are possibly too afraid to speak up. Therefore we demand NHS England send a directive to all NHS Trusts to immediately STOP spending taxpayers’ money on all employment tribunals concerning whistleblowing doctors and instead adopt for judicial mediation, a free service offered by the Employment Tribunals. Such a mediation attempt will save taxpayers money and also the emotional, and psychological distress suffered by the whistle-blower who otherwise engages in a lengthy expensive legal process.

We also demand NHS England immediately call an enquiry into the wastage of tax-payers money so far on employment tribunals concerning whistle-blowers and publish a report with recommendations to prevent such wastage from occurring again in future.

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