Nurse Margaret Haywood took matters into her own hands and involved the ‘Panorama’ programme when she found intolerable conditions at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, conditions that none of the NHS staff seemed to care about.
The result of her whistle-blowing? The loss of her career – courtesy of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. So much for the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, the Act which is supposed to protect workers who ‘blow the whistle’ about wrongdoing!
But thanks to the media furore concerning the NMC’s action, and the screening of an updated Panorama programme last night, more than 23,000 people have now signed a Royal College of Nursing (RCN) petition in her support.
Let us hope commonsense and justice prevail!
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