Nottingham MPs meet trust bosses following critical report

MPs have met with bosses of Nottingham University Hospitals following a crucial report that highlighted racial discrimination and a “culture of bullying” at the trust.

 

As well as inspectors recently rating the trust as “requiring improvement”, there are also serious concerns about maternity services at the trust, which runs City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre.

 

In a recently published report, CQC inspectors found there was a bullying culture across the trust, with many staff too frightened to speak up.  It also said some cases were found to be “directly attributable to racial discrimination”.

 

The CQC handed the trust 28 points to improve on, including addressing “the disconnect between the board and the wider organisation” and bullying “across the organisation”.

 

Dr Neil Pease from NUH said following the meeting “No-one in our organisation should experience bullying or discrimination of any sort and that is something we are committed to ending.”

 

He added that new roles had been created “to drive and deliver on improving the representation and experience of BME colleagues”.

 

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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