Dr Jenny Vaughan DAUK’s aLaw and Policy Officer speaks to the BMJ and explores why there is a disproportionate referral rate of ethnic minority doctors to fitness to practise processes.
Listen to Dr Jenny Vaughan’s talk at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art conference SOA 2019. In this podcast Jenny explores the increasing criminalisation of healthcare and the impact on patient safety.
The winter crisis in the NHS is only set to get worse, as doctors across the UK continually express their concern about keeping patients safe under such pressured conditions. Bed pressures, compounded by a lack of social care, are leading to longer waits in A&E, with more patients waiting over 12 hours for a bed. This dire situation has meant that now urgent operations, including for cancer, are being cancelled. Dr Jenny Vaughan DAUK’s Law and Policy Lead speaks to BBC Newsnight.
Dr Jenny Vaughan DAUK’s Learn Not Blame lead speaks to ITV news after West Suffolk downgraded from Outstanding to Requires Improvement following finger-printing ‘witch-hunt’ to identify anonymous whistleblower.
Following a CQC report downgrading West Suffolk hospital from Outstanding to Requires Improvement Dr Jenny Vaughan speaks to BBC Radio Suffolk. The Doctors’ Association UK first raised the alarm in December after members approached DAUK alleging that the trust was finger-printing staff and asking for samples of handwriting to identifying an anonymous whistleblower.
Listen to Dr Jenny Vaughan’s talk at SMACC 2019 on when healthcare becomes a crime. The talk is now available as a podcast with a video of the accompanying slides.
The General Medical Council (GMC) has just published the 29 final recommendations of the long-awaited reviewinto how gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide are applied to medical practice. This was an independent review chaired by consultant cardiac surgeon, Leslie Hamilton, and undertaken after widespread criticism of the GMC’s handling of the case of Hadiza Bawa-Garba. The Doctor’s Association UK, among many other organisations, has been calling for a truly “Just Culture” to be adopted by the NHS for staff and patients alike as part of its Learn Not Blame campaign, and broadly welcomes the report.
