Whistleblowing NHS

It makes me sick that the NHS is gagging staff who make statements regarding the faults made by the NHS in hospitals, senior doctors have been belittled by management of trusts because they had the nerve to publicly disclose faults, it is not acceptable that hospital trusts can stop these faults becoming public knowledge, the government tells us that they are pushing for transparency in the NHS but it is just not happening, a senior doctor can loose his/her job just by expressing a concern about patient safety in their departments, how can this be?, I believe that it is due to labours policy's in the last government where stupid targets were set for hospitals to attain, so the management will not accept criticism from staff, when in hospital you have the right to be looked after in a caring manner by qualified staff who have your best interests at the forefront of treatment, not the managements policy of hiding behind closed doors and keeping the truth from the outside world, this is not an attack on the staff of the NHS but the senior managers who seems to believe that it is in their best interests not the patient, they hold their job position more important than anything else and has to be preserved, the health secretary needs to sort this evil out at its deepest roots, we as the patient need to be sure that we are safe in hospital and believe that the treatment we are receiving is safe and being applied in a proper manner, the paramount importance of treatment is the fact that Patient Safety comes first not the managements policy of meeting targets life is far more important than targets, it is time that the government takes action against these senior staff who have no thought at all for the safety of the patients that attend their hospitals.  It is well known to be happening so now sooner than later has to be the need of the government to act in this matter and before the next election.