Those who haven't seen my estranged co-author in action, please click on the link below. He sadly hasn't said anything new and his data on whistleblowing is broadly outdated. A more interesting production by Peter is a paper called ""The General Medical Council - a personal view" which was written by Dr Peter Wilmshurst, Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shrewsbury, dated October/November 2006." . If you can find it online then you will be lucky. There are elements of this talk that are general statements. I think most people will find them useful. Overall, Mr Research Misconduct Expert missed out the fact that all the whistleblowing reviews had flawed methodology. Francis QC for instance adopted a "story" narrative as opposed to a balanced evidence based approach thereby failing to exclude vexatious whistlblowers. The findings of all these reports were essentially no different from the archaic Bristol Inquiry. As the rising litigation costs and error rate in the NHS demonstrates, the findings of these reports were broadly of no practical use to the world of patient safety. One could say, its good to debate in clinical meetings but that has never improved things on the shop floor. Senior whistleblowers like the sound of their own voice throughout the lands of England and afar. It doesn't actually change much where the patient is concerned though. There is no role of whistleblowing in the improvement of the evidence base in medicine. I say this because Trusts have no ability to learn from their mistakes. By the time the medical whistleblower is vindicated [which could be years], the lessons in improvement are outdated. It is doubtful that whistleblowing will ever be effective in the National Health Service. I believe that a system with better style of compulsory error reporting and the Michigan Model of Malpractice maybe the way into the future. [ http://www.uofmhealth.org/michigan-model-medical-malpractice-and-patient-safety-umhs] In summary, the campaign for whistleblowing rights in the United Kingdom is broadly a failure as it lacks senior ability to focus on the broader issues that affect all hierarchies of staff. Wilmshurst like many consultants is constantly of the view that a "consultant" world view improves the system. It hasn't so far so something must be wrong. There is though a failure in leadership at the present time. Of course, hopefully at some point, there maybe a senior with a broader more modern outlook on how to actively improve patient safety. Until then, the public is essentially on its own. Good luck with that. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xze-yPubFIY