The report included input from staff, by way of a questionnaire, which focused on the culture within the trust in relation to raising concerns.<\/p>\n
It found that more than 2,000 staff experienced or witnessed inappropriate behaviour that they felt should be reported, but only about 700 formally reported their concerns.<\/p>\n
The questionnaire, which 3,500 (17%) of staff responded to, found that most staff did not report an incident they witnessed because they believed nothing would change.<\/p>\n
The report also found that while the rate of disciplinary, bullying and harassment cases have remained steady over the past five years, whistleblowing has shown a steady rise over the same period and legal claims against the trust have increased.<\/p>\n
In June, the health minister put the trust on level five performance accountability, known as special measures, which is used in what he described as “only the most serious and exceptional cases”.<\/p>\n
Earlier, he said the trust has been advised on the broad expectations that would form the Department of Health’s (DoH) “assessment of de-escalation” from those measures.<\/p>\n
He said this would require a “significant demonstration of sustained improvement, implementation of all related recommendations for both cardiac surgery and across the trust where appropriate”.<\/p>\n
He added that patients and the safety of services provided to them “must always be the overriding priority” and that the department will continue to monitor the trust’s commitment to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report included input from staff, by way of a questionnaire, which focused on the culture within the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}