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Santa   17/09/2013 at 20:58

The Trust may do better if the senior management and directors focused more on the reasons for which they are employed, rather than their own internal battles for supremacy and mindless harassment of frontline clinical staff. It is unfortunate that senior management have absolutely no respect for clinicians or the work that they do and seem to believe these people are unnecessary to the care of patients.

Ex Governor   26/09/2013 at 19:04

There have been governance problems with this Trust for 'many' years. I resigned from the Governing body in 2010 for several reasons..... *One was the tragic death of a service user and the fact it could have been prevented as a patient had already alerted senior management about inadequate responses from the crisis team (in 2007) the patients concerns werent acted upon they were totally ignored. *Concerns about the attitude of some of the Trust's non executive directors- they were insufficiently challenging to the executive. *One of the Trust's non executive directors aggressively shouted me down at a Governors meeting when I raised the subject of performance managing staff using the CORE measurement tool. *The Trusts medical director and head of psychology had written discriminatory remarks about types of patients in a text book ('hateful patients' ,'dependent clingers','help rejecting complainers' etc) and when I showed the offensive and unfair references to a Non Exec Director he said.... "well they were writing for fellow professionals it wasnt meant to be seen by the patients" I regarded his attitude as unacceptable especially with regard to the fact the Trust was supposed to be leading 'Time For Change'. *The Board of Directors including the Non Executive Directors 'refused' to have a service user on their Board despite stating in their 'Guide to Services' that they had service user involvement at all levels in the Trust. Service user involvement at the Trust was virtually non existent. *The Council of Governors is an ineffective farce and nothing more than a talking shop. I was hopeful at first that there would be a cultural shift and the Trust would become increasingly 'patient led' however there was extremely strong resistance from both senior management and the non-executive directors- they were alarmingly complacent and dismissive. Most of the governors were non-committal and apathetic and not really sufficiently informed with regard to mental health and learning disability matters. Governor input wasnt regarded as serious or important- decisions had already been made and the governors were just there to rubberstamp them meetings were directed to pre-set conclusions.

Whistleblower   31/10/2013 at 16:06

I whistle blew to my detriment and the detriment of two other people after working for NHS Dorset. Someone was severely injured even though this person was known to be extremely dangerous and had murdered before. Now that person is in prison and the person he hurt has been severely harmed. I had my career destroyed by bullying, as there was a cover up over an inappropriate police check. It's a farce but I will keep fighting for remedy for the three of us so badly let down.