Kim Holt
Dr Kim Holt is a paediatrician employed by Great Ormond Street Hospital She founded Patients First in 2011 after the Death of Baby P scandal in order to support whistle blowers in the National Health Service.
She was born in Coventry but grew up in Guernsey, where her father Raymond Fensome and mother Dorothy ran a guest house. She trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Her first job was at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
She was the designated doctor for children in care at St Ann's Hospital in Haringey. In 2007, after she and three other doctors wrote to the management of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust which ran the clinic warning that staff shortages and poor record-keeping would lead to a tragedy. She then spent four years on special leave from 2007 to 2011 until eventually the hospital management apologised and reinstated her. Holt says "They tried to push me out simply because I told the truth. It was all about protecting the name and reputation of the Great Ormond Street brand." [1]
In 2012 she involved in establishing Patients First which works to protect protect whistleblowers in the NHS.[2]
In 2013 she was voted among the most inspirational women in healthcare.[3]
References
- ↑ "I was driven out to protect the Great Ormond Street brand, says the whistleblowing paediatrician who could have saved Baby Peter Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055232/Baby-Peter-whistleblower-Kim-Holt-driven-protect-Great-Ormond-Street-brand.html#ixzz3Igw1qPRh". Daily Mail. 30 October 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ "Kim Holt backs conference on protecting whistleblowers". British Medical Association. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ "Baby P whistleblower Dr Kim Holt among country’s most inspirational women in healthcare". Ham and High. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2014.