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'Toxic cover-up' culture in NHS a risk to mothers and babies, says health chief
Harm to mothers and their babies is at risk of being normalised owing to a "toxic" culture of "cover-up" in the NHS, the head of the doctors' regulator will say.
Charlie Massey, chief executive of the General Medical Council (GMC), will tell delegates at a conference that "something must have gone badly wrong" for one in four trainee doctors to feel fearful of speaking up. In a speech seen by the PA news agency, Mr Massey will tell the Health Service Journal patient safety congress in Manchester: "That doctors are making life and death decisions in environments where they feel fearful to speak up is profoundly concerning.
"Those are the very factors that lead to cover-up over candour and obfuscation over honesty. And it is in those cultures that the greatest patient harm occurs." Maternity care is "one of the most high-risk and high-pressure areas of medicine.
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