EXCLUSIVE
A law firm that routinely advises health service bosses faces claims it withheld evidence in a landmark NHS whistleblowing case.
A judge has called for full evidence disclosure to assess claims that healthcare specialist firm Hill Dickinson acted fraudulently in a dispute over a lack of legal protection for NHS doctors in whistleblowing claims.
The firm will now have to account for its actions in litigation that saw more than 50,000 doctors below consultant level in England deprived of legal whistleblowing protections, according to the junior medic at the centre of it, Chris Day (37). The case also had implications for 865,000 agency workers across other sectors – including construction.
Had contracts drafted by the firm been revealed earlier in the litigation, MPs have also argued, it may have saved the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
When aged just 29, Day saw his training number deleted – allegedly in retaliation for having reported dangers to patient safety at an Intensive Care ward in South London. He had flagged understaffing that was linked to two patient deaths at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in 2013.
Megan Smith, a consultant anesthetist, said of the staffing levels Day had reported at a tribunal hearing last year: “There was a clear and present safety to patient safety: no doubt about that.”
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