title: Your right to blow the whistle.
abstract: The NHS Constitution has now enshrined within it a number of pledges concerning whistle blowing. This comes as a result of a recent Department of Health (DH) public consultation concerning the Constitution and whistle blowing (DH, 2011). Changes to the Constitution will add an expectation that staff should raise concerns at the earliest opportunity. It also pledges that NHS organizations should support staff by ensuring their concerns are fully investigated and that there is someone independent, outside of their team, to speak to. It will aim to add clarity around the existing legal right for staff to raise concerns about safety, malpractice or other wrong doing without suffering any detriment.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peate
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D035642:Whistleblowing