What is it about?
The use of bullying of clinical staff to increase financial payments to hospitals despite harm to patients. Led to 10,000 deaths of elderly in patients in 10 NHS hospitals around 2010
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Why is it important?
1. Upturning the pyramid; allowing clinicians seeing patients to dictate practice, with back room managerial staff being facilitators in this process. 2. screening out psychopathic / narcissistic individuals when appointing senior management (There are user friendly screening methods available; see Babiak and Hare, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, 2006 3. Improving whistleblowing audit processes.
Perspectives
Had a lot of responses from other clinicians.
Dr Prasanna Nemichandra de silva
NHS Providers
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This page is a summary of: Tackling psychopathy: a necessary competency in leadership development?, Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, September 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pnp.344.
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