More needs to be done to encourage whistleblowing within the National Health Service, according to an editorial published on bmj.com. It says more statutory protection, the support of regulatory bodies but above all a change in culture are needed to ensure patients and clinicians are protected.

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A charity is claiming that governors saved schools more than four million pounds in the last financial year. The School Governors’ One-Stop Shop (SGOSS) bases its figures on the time that volunteers spent serving on school governing bodies.

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The NHS has innovated since its inception 60 years ago. The first total hip replacement operation was performed in 1962 in Wigan, and today there are 62,000 operations each year. The new duty to promote innovation is designed to move the culture further along the innovation road and encourage people at all levels to think creatively about how things might be done differently.

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