chief executive sacked then gagged by lawyers for raising concerns about patient safety. After the health authority got rid of him, death rates rose in a horrible echo of the Mid- Staffs scandal - excess deaths at his old trust are now being investigated. (Barbara Hakin, the boss responsible for ordering him to ignore patient safety and focus on targets instead, for sacking him and gagging him, is currently v senior in the Dept of Health).
He finally broke silence and spoke to the Today programme, only to get a threatening letter from the Trusts's lawyers. Outrageous that anyone raising concerns about patient safety shoudl be stopped from speaking out - not only him but his family and the witnesses who were prepared to talk at his industrial tribunal. And very possibly illegal anyway.
Who the fuck do these lawyers think they are, and who the fuck has instructed them - in the week after the Francis report into Mid-Staffs called for gagging clauses to be banned? The sheer effrontery is astonishing.
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edam · 15/02/2013 13:20
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