Staff say hospital bosses misled them in hunt for whistleblower

Staff say hospital bosses misled them in hunt for whistleblower Doctors told a patient’s widower about the failings in an operation that led to her death

Doctors at Matt Hancock’s local hospital accused bosses of misleading senior staff about their unprecedented demand for fingerprint samples in a bid to identify a whistleblower, it has emerged.

Minutes of a meeting seen by the Guardian show that after managers at West Suffolk hospital used “bullying and intimidatory” tactics to seek out the whistleblower who revealed details of a botched operation to a patient’s widower, they were accused of deliberately misrepresenting their actions in communications with staff. The Guardian