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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Kirby

Warning mothers and babies at risk due to ‘toxic’ NHS cover-up culture

A "toxic" culture of cover-up within the NHS is risking the normalisation of harm to mothers and their babies, the head of the doctors’ regulator is set to warn.

Charles Massey, chief executive of the General Medical Council (GMC), will tell delegates at a conference on Monday that "something must have gone badly wrong" in workplaces where trainee doctors are fearful of speaking up.

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