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Despite the Government vows to protect whistleblowers… NHS boss who spoke out against locking up patients is sacked
A hospital manager who spoke out about staff locking up vulnerable patients said last night that he faces ruin despite a government pledge to protect whistleblowers.
David Ore told his NHS bosses children and pensioners were being restrained and locked in hospital cubicles for up to 12 hours without food or drink.
He said guards were being ordered almost every day to throw patients to the ground and drag them to rooms before holding the door shut so they could not get out. Pensioners were being restrained to ease the burden on overstretched doctors and nurses, Mr Ore said.
He said the violent security policy even led to the death of an elderly man at failing Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley in the West Midlands, the largest of the three run by the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust.
