A hospital accused of bullying its staff is facing new claims that it failed to act on a leading doctor’s warning about a potentially fatal failure to monitor vulnerable patients, the Guardian can reveal. An IT glitch meant that patients were not followed up to see how soon they would need potentially life-saving surgery. The hospital was forced to recognise that patients were potentially put at risk and took action only after a whistleblower alerted the NHS regulator. Responding to the new claims, the hospital acknowledged problems had occurred with its vascular surgery services and confirmed that an investigation was under way, but insisted that no patients had been harmed. It also introduced a new policy to ensure that doctors act on patients’ results, including scans, within 28 days.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2020 17:29 UTC