According to Public Service.co.uk MPs have been told that health trusts have no powers to gag current or former staff to prevent whistleblowing, but few health professionals are aware of their fundamental right to speak out.

The Commons Health Committee held a one-off hearing into reports that doctors had been made to sign so-called gagging clauses as part of the termination of their employment.

Jill Finney, deputy chief executive of the Care Quality Commission, said nothing could prevent practitioners making a disclosure to them or a professional regulator. But she admitted that regulators had to do more to educate health workers about their rights and defend them against intimidation.

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