‘Investigate now’: Ben Bradshaw urges probe into nursing regulator after The Independent’s expose

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A former health minister has urged the government to probe whistleblower concerns about the UK’s nursing regulator exposed by The Independent. Labour MP Sir Ben Bradshaw has written to the Department of Health and Social Care, the Professional Standards Authority and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, urging them to investigate serious allegations against the regulator: the Nursing and Midwifery Council. In the leaked dossier, the senior whistleblower warned that the NMC was lacking transparency and had not shared The Independent’s exposé into its “culture of fear” despite promises to do so. Sir Ben Bradshaw was health minister from 2007 to 2009 In response to The Independent’s story, the NMC said it intends to commission an independent review into the concerns raised, with an external expert to lead it.