Freedom to Speak Up for social care
The Department for Health and Social Care has published the Adult Social Care Reform White Paper People…...
3 December 2021
Speaking up
What is speaking up?
It is about speaking up about anything that gets in the way of doing a great job.
Freedom to Speak Up Guardians support workers to speak up when they feel that they are unable to in other ways.
There are nearly 700 Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in the NHS and independent sector organisations, national bodies and elsewhere.
20, 388 cases raised (1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021)
We can all take action to help speaking up business as usual.
If you have completed our E-learning course - Speak Up, Listen Up, Follow Up - you can make a speaking up pledge.
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About Us
Freedom To Speak Up
The National Guardian’s Office leads, trains and supports a network of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in England and provides support and challenge to the healthcare system in England on speaking up.
Weaving Freedom to Speak Up into the fabric of the whole organisation
Kirsty Dickson, Freedom to Speak Up Guardian at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, has worked proactively to integrate speaking up throughout the organisation.
Read more from the winners of the 2021 Freedom to Speak Up Organisation of the Year.
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Northumbria Healthcare wins Freedom to Speak Up Organisation of the Year 2021
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has won the Freedom to Speak Up Organisation of the Year at the…...
19 November 2021
From Twitter
An exclusive interview in Nursing Times: Pandemic Pressures must not risk a repeat of Mid Staffs.
Thank you to Helene Donnelly for Speaking Up and using your ... experience to help create cultural change in Organisations #FTSU https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/workforce/exclusive-interview-pandemic-pressures-must-not-risk-mid-staffs-repeat-30-11-2021/
"My fear now is that the pressures caused by Covid are providing an opportunity for the failures at Mid Staffs to reoccur – if Mid Staffs was a perfect storm ... locally, then we have got a perfect storm nationally at the moment"
Thanks to Helene Donnelly for speaking with me⬇️ https://twitter.com/NursingTimes/status/1465587751764561922
Exclusive interview: Pandemic pressures must not risk Mid Staffs repeat
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/workforce/exclusive-interview-pandemic-pressures-must-not-risk-mid-staffs-repeat-30-11-2021/