Climate of fear putting patients at risk, say doctors
Whistleblowers allege they were punished for raising concerns at one of England’s worst performing trusts. …
Eye surgeon Tristan Reuser was referred to the GMC in 2017, several months after raising concerns about a lack of nurses to support operations at the Heart of England NHS Trust, which merged with UHB in 2018. On one occasion he needed to perform emergency eye surgery, but there were no nurses to help and he resorted to using an untrained, non-clinical staff member to assist the procedure.
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