Closed petition Whistleblowing and Patient Safety

Closed on 15 August 2012

The Department of Health is asked to consider the recommendations made in the research paper Whistleblowing and Patient Safety available here http://www.mediafire.com/?vb69kbj0a975uuu published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine July 2011.

The recommendations are as follows :-

"Our recommendations are firstly that the profession, through the GMC or BMA Council, should commission a Consultation Group on Reporting Poor Care. This Group will examine the consequences to all parties from incidents of reported poor care. Second, the Government should consider establishing a Health Select Committee Review of Whistleblowing that would make impartial recommendations to Government and the profession. Third, the Government should consider setting up and resourcing a National Whistleblowing Centre similar to that in the US. We believe that only by open public scrutiny will constructive change be cemented into exemplary clinical practice"