Peter Duffy warned that there is a growing risk of electronic patient records and NHS staff communications being exposed to tampering efforts in disputes with managers and executives, citing alleged email falsification that has formed part of a long-running dispute with his ex-employer, the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (UHMBT).
The surgeon, who now practices on the Isle of Man, told audiences of approximately 650 and more than 200, respectively, that “there is increasing potential for electronic tampering” of NHS IT records, holding serious implications for patient safety reporting and disputes with government and health service bodies.
He made the comments during talks given over the past month – to the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) on 10 September 2022 and at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) in Dublin on 23 September 2022.
The consultant medic, who says he was driven out of UHMBT in 2016 after blowing the whistle on dangerous practices and uninvestigated cases of harm within the trust’s urology services, won a constructive dismissal claim against his ex-employer in 2018.
Duffy now alleges that emails concerning the care of a patient at the centre of his whistleblowing were forged and backdated by senior UHMBT staff, several years after his employment claim against the trust had ended.
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