{"id":508,"date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-2-3-drjennyvaughanitvnewswestsuffolk\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","slug":"2020-2-3-drjennyvaughanitvnewswestsuffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-2-3-drjennyvaughanitvnewswestsuffolk\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK on ITV news: Dr Jenny Vaughan talks Learn Not Blame after treatment of whistleblowers at West Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The West Suffolk NHS Trust has been criticised by hospital inspectors after falling from outstanding two years ago to now requiring improvement overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspectors say they found significant concerns and risks to patients within the maternity and midwifery service, which included the failure to track and score observations of some women and new-born babies in order to identify deterioration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Care Quality Commission say they raised these concerns with the trust immediately following the inspection and a warning notice was issued stating that improvements must be made by 31 January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors\u2019 Association UK raised the alarm after our members brought to our attention that doctors were being finger-printed by West Suffolk in an effort to identify an anonymous whistleblower. The story was first broken by The Guardian and DAUK in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to ITV news DAUK\u2019s Learn Bot Blame lead Dr Jenny Vaughan said:  \u201cThe only way you can make patients safer is by providing a very open environment&#8230;if you don\u2019t get that you get a cover up culture..you get bullying&#8230;Doctors that approached DAUK said they felt persecuted.\u201d  Her comments come after \u201cwitch hunt for a whistleblower\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full news reel: https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/anglia\/2020-01-30\/west-suffolk-hospital-requires-improvement\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jenny Vaughan DAUK\u2019s Learn Not Blame lead speaks to ITV news after West Suffolk downgraded from Outstanding to Requires Improvement following finger-printing \u2018witch-hunt\u2019 to identify anonymous whistleblower.&nbsp;<\/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":[38,39,40,181,41,49,42,178,144],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-not-blame","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-jenny-vaughan","tag-itv-news","tag-jenny-vaughan","tag-learn-not-blame","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-tv","tag-west-suffolk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}