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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

NHS England urged to introduce external second opinion when dismissing staff

Dr Narinder Kapur
Narinder Kapur: ‘If they had a second external opinion when Abdullah had his kangaroo court or when I had my kangaroo court, that external person would almost certainly not have approved his unfair dismissal or my unfair dismissal.’ Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

NHS England is being urged to introduce an independent second opinion whenever it decides to dismiss a healthcare professional, in memory of a nurse who set himself on fire after being unfairly dismissed from his job.

Dr Narinder Kapur, an NHS whistleblower, is proposing “Amin’s rule”, named after Amin Abdullah, who killed himself in 2016, to plug a gap he says exists when it comes to staff wellbeing.

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