Christie: Regulator downgrades leading cancer centre amid bullying concerns

A top cancer centre’s leadership rating has been downgraded from “outstanding” to “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission after staff reported fears about raising concerns.1Rebecca Wight, a former nurse with the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, told the BBC Newsnight programme that the CQC had arranged an off-site session “for people to come anonymously and speak to them,” after inspectors were warned that forums with clinical staff had been “infiltrated” by senior leaders in the executive team.The CQC said the inspection had been carried out “in part due to information of concern received from whistleblowers regarding the culture and leadership of the trust.”The Christie, the largest single site cancer treatment centre in Europe, had been rated as “outstanding” in its previous two inspections. But after the latest inspection its overall rating was downgraded to “good,” with safety and leadership both marked down as requiring improvement.The report said, “Very…
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