Hitting your head against a brick wall : a surgeon's account of raising concerns in the NHS and why the system needs to change

By:

Swinn, Michael

Publication details: [S.L.] : Ravenshoe Press, 2024Description: xxii, 202pISBN:

9781068629402

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WX 28

Summary: Michael Swinn describes in searing detail his torturous experience of being an NHS whistle-blower and argues powerfully for change. His journal from medical student to Consultant surgeon and head of department is chronicled followed by his struggles to persuade hospital managers to listen to his and his colleagues' serious concerns regarding patient care. By the time they were eventually proved right, much harm had sadly been done to many patients, some of whom tragically died. A nightmarish, Kalfaesque world is described of seemingly interminable investigations, breathtaking incompetence, subterfuge and bluff by some managers apparently more intent on covering their own backs and limiting corporate reputational damage than protecting patients.

List(s) this item appears in: Stenhouse Library: Speak Up/ Listening

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Shelves	WX 28 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		ST00536

Michael Swinn describes in searing detail his torturous experience of being an NHS whistle-blower and argues powerfully for change. His journal from medical student to Consultant surgeon and head of department is chronicled followed by his struggles to persuade hospital managers to listen to his and his colleagues' serious concerns regarding patient care. By the time they were eventually proved right, much harm had sadly been done to many patients, some of whom tragically died.

A nightmarish, Kalfaesque world is described of seemingly interminable investigations, breathtaking incompetence, subterfuge and bluff by some managers apparently more intent on covering their own backs and limiting corporate reputational damage than protecting patients.

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