Media Appearances 

 

Newspapers

 

Evening Mail: " People put their trust in hospitals and the trust is sometimes being abused " 18th February 2000  

Description: First article describing the poor conditions of NHS hospitals. Click here.

 

Sunday Times. Elderly Helped to Die 2.4. 2000.  Click here.

 

Birmingham Post: "Patients were left to die to free up beds" 13.4. 2000 . Click here.

 

Daily Mail: "Elderly condemned to die". 3rd April 2000 . Click here.

 

Daily Mail: "Featured in. Neglect of the Elderly". 4th April 2000

 

Daily Mail: "Fury over treatment of the Elderly over". 14th April 2000

 

Calcutta Telegraph The Whistleblower . 30th April 2000. India

 

Disability Times  26th June 2000. Human Rights Protest 2000 Click here.

 

Radio 4 Today Programme. 13th April 2000 0630am (Elderly Care)

 

BBC Breakfast News. Live Interview. 13th April 2000 0745hrs (Elderly Care)

 

Channel 4 News. Recorded Interview. 13th April 2000 1900hrs (Elderly Care)

 

Sky TV News. Live interview 17.30 13th April 2000 (Elderly care)

 

Organiser of HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE NHS PROTEST 2000

26th June 2000 at the Queen Elizabeth I Convention Centre London .

   

 Featured and interviewed for this on:

 

  a) BBC News at one

  b) BBC News 24

  c) Sky News

  d) CNN News

  e) BBC Radio Luton. Blackmix programme

  f) Radio WM Birmingham 7am interview

  g) Newsdirect

  h) Newsnight

  7) December 2002 Late Night Currie. Should Older Medical Students be recruited?

 

20th April 2009  BBC Radio Ulster. Radio Ulster's Talk back. Interviewed on the subject of whistleblowing.

 

13th October 2009  BBC Radio Ulster. Good Morning Ulster. Interviewed on the subject of whistleblowing.

 

Express Newspapers. Caught - The MP Love Rat December 4, 2003. Click here.

 

Description. My involvement in the Paul Marsden MP Scandal. More can be read in my short Kindle book on Amazon.com. By it here. [Kindle for PC software is available here]

 

Dr Rita Pal v General Medical Council. Report in the Sunday Mercury 6th February 2005. Click here.

 

Whistleblowing in the Wind. Written by MD Private Eye . Click here.

 

Guardian newspapers. Hero or Pariah  [22nd November 2012]. Click here.

Guardian Newspapers. The Persecution of NHS Whistleblowers. Click here.

Doctor Faces High Court  Battle With GMC over weblink. Click here.

 

 

Articles on Whistleblowing and Patient Safety.

 

1. Experiences of an NHS Whistleblower. Expolink. Click here.

 

2. Preventing Whistleblower Retaliation. Expolink. Click here.

 

3. PIDA and Management Attitudes to Whistleblowing. Click here

 

4. Meddebate Interviews me. Click here to read.

 

5. Audit Commission features my case. Click here to read their report on whistleblowing.

 

6. Legal and Medical. Speak Out. Click here for the article.

 

7. Whistleblowing and Patient Safety. Bolsin, Pal, Wilmshurst, Pena. Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine. Click here. 

 

The Independent featured the research paper here. 

 

8. Huffington Post. Vexatious Whistleblowing. Click here.

 

9. Huffington Post. Medical Whistleblowing. Is it Safe? Click here

 

10.Huffington Post. Whistleblowing and Patient Safety? Click here.
 

11. Guidance for Journalists dealing with whistleblowers. Click here.

 

Books featuring the whistleblowing case. 

 

1. How we treat the sick. Click here to read. 

 

2. Safeguarding Adults and the Law. Click here to read. 

 

3. Medical Self Regulation. Crisis and Change. Click here to read.