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Whistleblowing: putting patients first

5 mins read Whistleblowing
Attitudes to whistleblowing are changing in all businesses, including dentistry. Dental nurses need to know when to metaphorically put the whistle to their lips and blow, as Dave Hancock explains

Were you despised as a snitch, a nark or a grass at school? Did your parents warn you not to tell tales, not to indulge in tittle-tattle? No wonder there was a reluctance, a fear even, among today's adult generation to engage in what has become known as whistleblowing. Indeed, until as recently as 1998, whistleblowers in the UK were not protected in law. Before the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, and even after it in some cases, employees raising concerns could find themselves ostracised in a company, their career prospects stalled or even obliged to resign. How things have changed. Now you can get into trouble for not blowing the whistle. So what exactly should you do, why, when and how?

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