ZHH This is deeply worrying for all patients! You are looking for “immunity” of some kind? Totally counterproductive. You should be focusing your energies+efforts on proactive #patientsafety Happy to help with that @MattHancock @BillCashMP @JeremyLefroy @SharonHodgsonMP @C7RKY
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Replying to @KenZeroHarm @BAPIOUK and
Not about immunity and Drs are in no way above the law. MPTS tribunals have legal and lay members deciding on the fitness to practice of doctors. This is about a just culture in the NHS that embraces patient safety. See our
#LearnNotBlame campaign!https://www.dauk.org/news/2018/7/24/what-is-learn-not-blame …7 replies 12 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @TheDA_UK @KenZeroHarm and
A worthy initiative. But needs to be accompanied by similar to address widespread concerns when patients are harmed. Otherwise as Ken says it may look like immunity for HCPs. Suggest you support
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Replying to @NHSwhistleblowr @TheDA_UK and
I agree David, but the problem is 1000s of patients are being harmed, in quite subtle ways, by HCPs working in a defensive, fearful mindset due to harsh regulation - overinvestigating, overtreating, "just in case", which results in hidden harms. They are just not as visible.
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Replying to @DrAlanWoodall @TheDA_UK and
Exactly Alan. The two problems are inextricably related and need to be dealt with together. Preventing prosecution or GMC sanction will not stop pts/relatives from being aggrieved over lack of candour.
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Replying to @NHSwhistleblowr @TheDA_UK and
Agree. We are not suggesting prosecution or sanction by regulators should never happen. But we have the equivalent of regulatory 'capital punishment' for mistakes to satisfy media under guise of 'public confidence'. It drives defensive practice, which is always bad for patients.
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Replying to @NHSwhistleblowr @DrAlanWoodall and
I'd also like to point out that public confidence is a critical element in all this. Doctors are keen to be judged by peers, rather than the public. It wasn't media, but the jury that
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Replying to @C7RKY @NHSwhistleblowr and
We are, possibly, the most over-regulated medical profession in the western world. Double/ triple jeopardy. Working in unsafe systems, where a culture of raising concerns can be career-ending. The fact we are losing UK doctors to work overseas is not by chance. Morale gone. Why?
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Replying to @DrAlanWoodall @NHSwhistleblowr and
Unsafe systems - unacceptable. Raising concerns ending careers - unacceptable. I'll help in any way I can to challenge both. But whilst I can't comment on elsewhere, I can tell you there's nothing over-regulated re UK healthcare. Regulation is as sprawling as it is non-existent.
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And can I ask what you mean by double/triple jeopardy please, Alan? Courts + MPTS I can imagine you might point at, but where does triple come from?
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