NHS trust faces £2m legal bill after battle with whistleblower

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NHS trust faces £2m legal bill after battle with whistleblower

Monday, 20 February 2012 13:37

The unfair sacking of a popular NHS chief executive who angered bosses by refusing to close local cancer services has cost the taxpayer an estimated £2m. John Watkinson, former chief executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, expressed his "relief" after the trust that sacked him admitted it would no longer fight the case.

The case highlights the lack of accountability within the NHS which allows managers to spend hundreds of thousand of pounds of public money persecuting whistleblowers with little if any accountability.