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Whistleblower wins against NHS

A whistleblowing heart doctor, who sounded the alarm about poor care and patient deaths at his own hospital, has won a major legal victory against his NHS employers, reports [s]The Guardian[/s]. An employment tribunal has ruled that Dr Raj Mattu was unfairly dismissed by the [b]Walsgrave Hospital[/b] in Coventry, and suffered a series of ‘detriments’ after he spoke out about what he saw as dangerous conditions, including too many patients’ beds being squeezed together to help relieve overcrowding. The trust ran up over £6m in legal fees in its long quest against Mattu, who was ‘vilified, bullied and harassed’.

[link url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/17/legal-victory-heart-doctor-whistleblower-hospital-safety-fears]Full report in The Guardian[/link]

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