Exclusive: Whistleblower warned the health secretary he must act on scandal-hit regulator Nursing and Midwifery Council
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Health secretary Wes Streeting has been accused of ignoring a whistleblower who helped uncover a major scandal within the UK’s nursing regulator.
An independent review by Rise Associates, headed by former prosecutor Nazir Afzal, found evidence in July of widespread racism and a “toxic culture” within the Nursing and Midwifery Council that was putting the public and nurses at risk. The review was commissioned by the NMC following an expose in The Independent revealing a whistleblower’s allegations and that it was allowing rogue nurses to work unchecked.
The worker who exposed the scandal wrote to Mr Streeting and the Department of Health and Social Care multiple times to raise their concerns. Five letters, seen by The Independent, were sent to the health secretary’s office between September last year when he was shadow health secretary and after he became health secretary in July. However, they have not received a response.
In a subsequent email to Mr Streeting’s office on 31 July, the whistleblower called for the NMC chair Sir David Warren to be removed and other board members...
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