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Doctors scared to blow whistle on patient care

Growing numbers of doctors have said they would not blow the whistle about patient safety concerns for fear of retribution, a survey has found. The British Medical Association (BMA) surveyed doctors in 2018 and again in 2024, with a rising proportion saying they would not feel confident raising concerns about …

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Paula Vennells cries as she admits ‘mistakes’

Ms Vennells has told the inquiry how she trusted information from the “highest lawyer in the organisation” but accepted it was “clearly completely inaccurate”. The inquiry was shown minutes from a meeting attended by Ms Vennells and Susan Crichton, then the Post Office’s most senior in-house lawyer. The document stated …

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Ex-chief executive set to give evidence on Horizon

Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has apologised for not meeting Alan Bates in 2010 when the sub-postmasters campaigner wrote to him for the first time about the Horizon scandal. Sir Ed, who was the Post Office minister at the time, was advised to meet Mr Bates …

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Former Post Office chief and MD denies oversight of wrongful prosecutions

THE Post Office’s former chief executive and managing director both claimed they did not remember having oversight of the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters at the Horizon scandal inquiry today. More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 as Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon system made it …

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