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Hospital doctors who quit their jobs are being routinely forced to sign "gagging orders" despite legislation designed to protect NHS whistleblowers, it is revealed today.
Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are being spent on contracts that deter doctors from speaking out about incompetence and mistakes in patient care.
A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Channel 4 News has discovered that at least 170 doctors in England and Wales agreed such a settlement with the trust employing them – backed up by pay-offs totalling more than £3m.
Fifty-five of the 64 contracts supplied by the trusts to the investigation team contained gagging clauses. The agreements have to be approved by the Treasury. The bureau discovered that a further 19 NHS staff who decided to go to employment tribunals after blowing the whistle on hospital standards eventually settled before their allegations were made public.
That's why I don't believe statistics and propaganda... when someone mentions the hospitals in Cuba are better than the US... OBVIOUSLY, they are doing something wrong and intentionally trying to mislead the public... i wonder if Moore is flying to Cuba for his doctor visits or going to a US doctor... he is such a moron...
Wonder if similar details of gag orders will be outlined in requirements by HHS Sec. Sebelius? Remember, Nanny P-lousey said we had to pass the bill to see what was/will be in it.
It's messed up, but I'm not British or Thai, so I really don't care. Well I care a tiny bit, but not enough to give it much thought. I'm more concerned about what I'm having for dinner.
I don't understand how this can be. The liberals say Europe is the ideal utopian land of socialism that the backwards US should try to emulate. You mean that's not true? We've been hoodwinked!
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