
NHS PRAISED THIS HOSPITAL AS ITS BEST. THEN POLICE OPENED A MANSLAUGHTER INQUIRY INTO 90 DEATHS. Dr Mansoor Foroughi was a consultant neurosurgeon at Royal Sussex County Hospital (@UHSussex). Between 2018 and 2021 he raised patient safety concerns 17 separate times. He compiled a 70-page document detailing 19 deaths and 23 cases of serious patient harm. He described a group of senior consultants he called "the gang" who he says were overlooking death rates that had no business being that high. The Trust sacked him for acting in bad faith. Then came Operation Bramber. Sussex Police (@sussex_police) launched a criminal investigation in June 2023 that eventually covered over 200 cases, including more than 90 suspected manslaughters. They brought in the National Crime Agency. They started calling bereaved families. Here is the part that should make you put down your coffee. Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt), when he was Health Secretary, held up this Trust as the best in the entire NHS. A showpiece. A model for others to follow. The same hospital where a doctor was raising the alarm on a near-weekly basis and getting nowhere. The court documents that revealed the full scale of Dr Foroughi's allegations were suppressed for six months. The Trust fought a legal battle to keep them sealed. The Times and BBC Newsnight eventually got them anyway. Dr Foroughi did everything the system tells you to do. He documented it. He escalated it. He went back 17 times. He was fired for it. NHS does not have a whistleblower problem. It has a management problem. The whistleblowers are working fine. Sources: The Times (@thetimes), BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight), The Guardian (@guardian) |



























