Whistleblowers allege they were punished for raising concerns at one of England's worst performing trusts.
By David Grossman and William McLennanWhistleblowers at one of England's worst performing hospital trusts have said a climate of fear among staff is putting patients at risk.
The deaths of 20 patients in the haematology department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which is run by the trust, led to a review in 2017 by consultant Emmanouil Nikolousis. "Certainly there should have been different actions done," he said. "They could be saved. Certainly, when you don't have an action done, then you don't really know the outcome."
"They were trying, as they did with other colleagues, to completely sort of ruin your career," he said. Eye surgeon Tristan Reuser was referred to the GMC in 2017, several months after raising concerns about a lack of nurses to support operations at the Heart of England NHS Trust, which merged with UHB in 2018. On one occasion he needed to perform emergency eye surgery, but there were no nurses to help and he resorted to using an untrained, non-clinical staff member to assist the procedure."I think my case particularly, I have no doubt that that was true," he said.
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