Media report re ‘Doctors and nurses who fail to blow the whistle on substandard care or patient abuse should face being struck off the register’ by Nina Lakhani published by the Independent on Sunday

Refers to: the Health Select Committee, a dramatic rise in complaints against individual health professionals over the last year, General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Stephen Dorrell, whistleblowing, Niall Dickson (Chief Executive, GMC), Professor Dickon Weir-hughes (Chief Executive, NMC), establishing a separate body to manage fitness to practice hearings, Department of Health and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).