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Jan 4, 2024 · Whistleblowers in health and social care can include employees, former employees, agency workers, trainees or members of an organisation. Many people feel anxious about speaking up due to fears of losing their jobs or creating an unpleasant work environment. Fortunately, whistleblowers have rights.
Jan 30, 2024 · Whistleblowing is the act of reporting concerns about unsafe, illegal, or unethical practices within an organisation, particularly when the well-being of patients or staff may be at risk. Who can be a whistleblower?
Oct 23, 2023 · Addressing whistleblowing concerns in the NHS is vital to promote a culture of transparency and accountability. By taking proactive steps, such as policy reviews, training, and independent investigations, we can create an environment where employees feel safe and valued when reporting wrongdoing.
Feb 16, 2018 · Whistleblowers play a very important and indispensable role in society and health care sector, but their act may elicit retaliation and other negative effects, which may impact their mental health.
- Peter G van der Velden, Mauro Pecoraro, Mijke S Houwerzijl, Erik van der Meulen
- 2019
- Work-Related Retaliation
- Social Retaliation
- Physical Retaliation
Work-related retaliation can take on many forms, ranging from subtle indications of displeasure to drastic victimization. Initially, management might pretend to take the issue seriously, but in reality, they could just be blowing “hot air.” They often engage in stonewalling, where inquiries fall on deaf ears, and memos remain unanswered (Hunt, 1995...
Work-related retaliation is often accompanied by social retaliation, which entails practices aimed at marginalizing whistleblowers in the organization as well as society in general (Alford, 2001, p. 131). Colleagues and superiors become progressively less friendly. They isolate the whistleblower through closing ranks and identifying the whistleblow...
Whistleblowers sometimes live in fear for their lives as a consequence of blowing the whistle. The Guptaleaks whistleblowers left South Africa for an undisclosed destination abroad, when the exposure of their identities seemed imminent. They believed that it would never be safe to live in South Africa again and that they needed to build new lives f...
- Tina Uys
- tuys@uj.ac.za
Jul 3, 2011 · This year the Treasury has spent well over £3 million gagging whistleblowers, which will ensure that improvements to patient care will not occur. 21 Martin Fletcher, Chief Executive at the National Patient Safety Agency, has said: ‘Good reporting is the cornerstone of patient safety.
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Dec 27, 2021 · While becoming a whistleblower carries substantial and multiple risks to the truth-tellers’ survival and well-being, many studies appear to assume the risk is embraced—or at least known beforehand—by the whistleblower, who speaks out regardless.
