BMA will support legal fight of whistleblowing junior doctor Chris Day

The BMA will back the legal case of a junior doctor, Chris Day, as part of plans to improve its support for whistleblowers. Day has previously claimed that the BMA initially offered support for his case but then withdrew it.1 He fought a four year legal battle to have his claims of unfair dismissal heard after raising concerns in 2014 about understaffing and safety at the intensive care unit of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, London, where he was a specialist registrar in emergency medicine.2 He claimed that after he repeated the concerns to Health Education England (HEE) it deleted his training …