TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swinn,Michael
TI  - Hitting your head against a brick wall: a surgeon's account of raising concerns in the NHS and why the system needs to change
SN  - 9781068629402
PY  - 2024///
CY  - [S.L.]
PB  - Ravenshoe Press
KW  - NHS
KW  - Freedom to Speak Up
KW  - Medical biographies
N2  - 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.
ER  -