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Whistleblowing: what progress since the Francis Inquiry report?
Author(s) -
Nicholl David
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
trends in urology and men's health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2044-3749
pISSN - 2044-3730
DOI - 10.1002/tre.707
Subject(s) - wrongdoing , safeguarding , presentation (obstetrics) , engineering ethics , political science , sociology , management , law , engineering , medicine , economics , nursing , radiology
Whistleblowing is established as an important aspect of safeguarding patients. Nevertheless, whistleblowers themselves have suffered as a result of their efforts to expose ‘wrongdoing’. In this paper, based on a presentation at the Royal Society of Medicine, in March 2019, the author considers what progress has been made since the Francis Inquiry report.