{"id":478,"date":"2020-06-22T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/cultureoffearwhistleblowing\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:58:00","slug":"cultureoffearwhistleblowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/cultureoffearwhistleblowing\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the Guardian: Doctors warn \u2018culture of fear\u2019 in NHS could prevent whistleblowing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors have warned that a \u201cculture of fear\u201d in the NHS may prevent life-saving lessons being learned about Covid-19 after a leading hospital consultant emailed scores of staff saying those responsible for \u201cleaks\u201d would be found and fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Campaigners have warned that communications like this could have a chilling effect, damaging the speaking-up culture, harming patients and limiting chances to learn lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCommunications like this instil fear and are toxic,\u201d said Dr Jenny Vaughan, law and policy officer at Doctors Association UK, said. \u201cWhen things go wrong we have to make sure lessons are learned, and we have to feel able to speak up. It is always important to support staff who have concerns about safety and not make them feel they are working in a culture of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis once again evidences an ingrained culture within the NHS that deters people from speaking up at the earliest opportunity about potentially very serious life-threatening issues,\u201d said WhistleblowersUK chief executive Georgina Halford-Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors have warned that a \u201cculture of fear\u201d in the&nbsp;NHS&nbsp;may prevent life-saving lessons being learned about Covid-19 after a leading hospital consultant emailed scores of staff saying those responsible for \u201cleaks\u201d would be found and fired.\u201cCommunications like this instil fear and are toxic,\u201d said Dr Jenny Vaughan, law and policy officer at Doctors Association UK, said. \u201cWhen things go wrong we have to make sure lessons are learned, and we have to feel able to speak up. It is always important to support staff who have concerns about safety and not make them feel they are working in a culture of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[38,106,39,40,33,42,114],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-not-blame","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-jenny-vaughan","tag-press","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}