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NHS PAID £680K TO DESTROY THE DOCTOR WHO TRIED TO SAVE YOUR LIFE Dr Jasna Macanovic was a kidney specialist with 20 years of excellent NHS service. She noticed that a needle technique being used on dialysis patients was causing complications. Bleeding. Clotting. Deaths. She raised it internally. Nothing happened. So she went to the Care Quality Commission, then to the General Medical Council. That is literally what doctors are supposed to do. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust @PHU_NHS responded by sacking her for serious misconduct. The misconduct? Telling the regulators. They called her aggressive and intimidating. The tribunal called it a predetermined act of unfair dismissal. There was no contributory fault on her part. Zero. She spent five years fighting them. The trust spent £680,000 of public money on lawyers to defend the indefensible. She was awarded £219,000. The people who ran the disciplinary process against her, the tribunal described it as a counter-offensive, were later promoted. The medical director who launched the action against her moved on to a board role elsewhere. The CEO got a bigger job covering two NHS trusts. Nobody was struck off. Nobody was held accountable. The CQC investigated the medical director and found no breach. The same CQC that had texted Dr Macanovic in 2016 to tell her she was protected and could not lose her job. Raise a concern, get destroyed, win at tribunal five years later, watch everyone responsible get promoted. @NHS has a Freedom to Speak Up policy. It is largely decorative. Source: protect_advice.org_uk / Employment Tribunal Case 1400232/2018 /