Really enjoyed this book. I used to work in healthcare so was particularly interesting subject for me. It was very informative and thorough. Straight to the point

Published in 2021, but still Lucy Betts colleagues were unable to convince the management at the Cheshire hospital that babies were being murdered. The medical profession is hoping in light of this the two consultants and a junior doctor who were sacked at different hospitals after raising concerns about patient deaths could be reinstated.
It is fair to say that within the healthcare setting no real lessons were learnt from Beverley Allitt some 33 years ago - which is shocking and even more for patient safety.
I read this book with interest and in the hope that senior staff looking into serious incidents and using the NHS England Just Culture Guide, then sit up and realise they need to listen to Whisleblowers as the senior staff are just as calpable as the rouge professional.
The author gives a good guide to this but at the end of the day the policies are there, Clinical Governance needs to be taken seriously, Serious Incident and Learning Groups need to not just pay lip service to reports, and the Commisioners have a part to play in this too.
I admire this author for his persistence but this needs to be on the shelves of every clinical area and much more support for those staff who raise their heads above the parapit.

Wow a must read! Failure to Care: Whistleblowing in Healthcare is a hard-hitting book about both the importance and significance of whistleblowing as a mechanism for accountability within healthcare institutions. Failure to Care is a unique blend of scholarship and first-person narrative that punctuates the need for whistleblowers throughout our healthcare system. Additionally, the book provides direction for healthcare workers to protect themselves from profane figureheads who work within our healthcare institutions and with some of the most vulnerable individuals. This is definitely one of those special books that I will keep on my shelves to go back to and reread. It says a lot that I am still thinking about this book a few days after finishing it - I will definitely be recommending this one!

I knew I had to read this one as someone who deals with chronic health issues and sees so much go on in the medical world that isn’t handled properly And the injustice of that. It was so gratifying to know there are these things that go on in the medical community and they def need to have attention brought to them and have the whistle blown.