NHS NURSE BULLYING – STILL COMMON, DESPITE STAFFORD HOSPITAL SCANDAL
April 1st, 2013
One of the many dispiriting elements of the Stafford Hospital scandal over poor patient care was a lack of leadership and allegations about a culture encouraging the bullying of nurses. But the Stafford episode is just a reflection of what can be found “all over the NHS [National Health Service],” according to Julie Bailey, the founder of the ‘Cure the NHS’ initiative that campaigns for accountability in Britain’s health sector.Simply put, nurses are scared to blow the whistle about hospital management problems because of a “lack of leadership,” Ms ...
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