A NURSE BURNED TO DEATH OUTSIDE A PALACE A nurse set himself on fire outside Kensington Palace. Nine years later, the NHS still hasn't fixed the problem that killed him. His name was Amin Abdullah. He was 41, working as a deputy ward manager at Charing Cross Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust @ImperialNHS. His story starts small. He signed a letter backing a colleague who'd had a patient complaint made against her. Eighteen other staff signed the same letter. Only Amin got investigated for it. The trust decided the letter made his honesty questionable. An independent inquiry later found there was little or no evidence for that. Didn't matter at the time. He was sacked for gross misconduct and told he could appeal. He never got that chance. Weeks after losing his job, with no history of depression, Amin doused himself in petrol and set himself alight. He died. The inquest ruled it suicide, his mind disturbed by everything that had happened to him. Two years on, an inquiry admitted he'd been treated unfairly all along. The trust's chief executive said sorry. Sorry is nice. It doesn't bring anyone back. Now Dr Narinder Kapur @Narinder_Kapur is pushing for something called Amin's Rule. The idea is simple. Before the NHS sacks someone who's raised a concern, an independent person outside the trust checks the case first. Kapur isn't just talking theory here. He was sacked himself, from Addenbrooke's Hospital back in 2010, for raising safety concerns. A tribunal ruled that unfair in 2012. Nine years after Amin died, that basic safeguard still doesn't exist. It's a suggestion, not a rule. SOURCES @NurseStandard @HSJnews @ImperialNHS And others