- Advice from INWO
- Concern within a small organisation
- Primary care concern involving the board
- Using the confidential contact
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A dental nurse has concerns that equipment at the surgery isn’t being serviced and maintained appropriately… |
January 2020 |
- Concern involving a contractor
- Concern within a small organisation
- Handling a concern directly at Stage 2 due to timescales
- Moving from business as usual into the Standards
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A part-time dental nurse in a dental practice with four dentists feels they are being bullied into working longer hours… |
January 2020 |
- Concern involving HR
- Serious concern requiring Stage 2 investigation
- Where business as usual has not worked
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A junior doctor felt over-worked, and when this had been going on for several months, they did not feel safe to sustain… |
January 2020 |
- Moving from business as usual into the Standards
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A cleaner within a hospital has noticed that new cleaning chemicals for the hospital have come in without appropriate… |
January 2020 |
- Handling a concern directly at Stage 2 due to timescales
- Health and social care setting
- Using the confidential contact
- Where business as usual has not worked
- ‘Masking’ an investigation
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A physiotherapist working in a rehab service notices issues with social work assessments for their clients… |
January 2020 |
- Concern involving HR
- Health and social care setting
- Using the confidential contact
- Where business as usual has not worked
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A social care worker in an integrated health and social care team raises concerns that staff from across the service are… |
January 2020 |
- Concern involving fraud
- Concern within a small organisation
- Primary care concern involving the board
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A practice nurse becomes aware that a district nurse is claiming for over-time from the board for hours they are not… |
January 2020 |
- Concern involving agency staff
- Serious concern requiring Stage 2 investigation
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A bank nurse on a care of the elderly ward raised concerns with the bank about the treatment and neglect of patients… |
January 2020 |
- Concern moving from Stage 1 to Stage 2
- Serious concern requiring Stage 2 investigation
- Staff feeling vulnerable
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An experienced hospital administrator was working in a team of ten, which had significant staff turnover and had to… |
January 2020 |
- Potentially malicious concern
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A manager is approached by a nurse who says that they would like to initiate the whistleblowing procedure for concerns… |
January 2020 |