Two consultants and a junior doctor expect case will make no difference to their separate claims for unfair dismissal
NHS clinicians who were sacked after blowing the whistle about avoidable patient deaths say they fear lessons from the Lucy Letby murder trial have not been learned and the case will make no difference to their own claims for unfair dismissal.
They say hospital bosses are still more concerned about reputation than patient safety, despite what emerged in the Letby case about the tragic consequences of ignoring consultants who first raised suspicions about her killing babies.
Two consultants and a junior doctor who were sacked at different hospitals after raising concerns about patient deaths are challenging their dismissals in the employment courts.
They all predict that the public outcry over the way senior doctors were ignored on Letby will not help their cases despite a public pledge from NHS leaders of better treatment for NHS whistleblowers.
Mansoor Foroughi, a consultant neurosurgeon, was sacked by University Hospital Sussex NHS trust (UHST) in December 2021 for allegedly acting in bad faith when he raised the alarm about 19 deaths and 23 cases of serious patient harm that he said had been covered up in the previous six years. Those deaths and at least 20 others are now being investigated by Sussex police after allegations of medical negligence.
Foroughi, whose appeal against his dismissal is due to be held in the coming months, told the Guardian: “I...
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