Upcoming Panel: Health and Social Care – Why Duty of Candour Matters, 30 June 2026, 6pm-8pm
The health and social care sector is besieged and under-resourced, often resulting in avoidable mistakes that result in harm to patients and the exploitation and abuse of workers. In 2015 after the Report by Sir Robert Frances into the Mid-Staff’s disaster a Duty of Candour was introduced alongside Freedom to Speak Up Guardians to enable speaking up without retaliation to stop harm and promote a learn not blame culture. The Government have now abolished FTSU claiming success but this is disputed by the whistleblowers who today feel less safe to speak up than ever before leading to many abandoning the healthcare profession.
The panel will share the reality of litigation for whistleblowers in health and social care and explain how the system is beset by delay and scandals that continue to cost the taxpayers millions of pounds. They will put forward compelling evidence and recommendations for legislative change.
Join us and colleagues from Health & Social Care on 30th June 2026 when we continue the discussions started last year with Professor Dr Stephen Bolsin who blew the whistle on serious problems with paediatric heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, claiming patients were sacrificed for funding.
We leave you with a quote from Sir Robert Frances KC – Keynote at last years #WAM
To reserve a ticket and join the discussion on 30th June see our website https://wbuk.org/wam-2026-programme/
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