Speaking out within the NHS should be 'the norm, not the exception', says health sec

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By Helen Corbett, PA Media

NHS staff must be able to blow the whistle and the health service must listen and act, health secretary Victoria Atkins has said.

“It cannot be right that NHS management spends millions of pounds fighting doctors who have concerns over patients’ safety,” she wrote in the Telegraph, referring to an investigation by the newspaper published this week.