£4.5m payout to doctor forced our her job.

[easty]

Is this not absolutely ridiculous? How does someone even come to a figure like that when working out compensation? I can understand £1.75m being her loss of earnings and pension....almost. But £4.5m is obscene. If she truly loved, "cherished", the profession she wouldn't take so much money out the NHS when it's clearly struggling financially at present.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074963/Top-woman-doctor-awarded-staggering-4-5-MILLION-hounded-job-baby.html

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One, seven years of defamation and harassment by senior colleagues is no joke. I'm amazed she stuck it out so long.

Two, part of the award will be compensation for her loss of earnings, part will be for the damage to her health, and part will be punitive against an NHS Trust that seems to have totally failed in their duty of trust towards one of their employees.

[Beefster]

If this was a bank that had been held to account over its appalling treatment of a member of staff, we'd be cheering. Just because the NHS is funded by the State doesn't make them any less liable to employment law so I've no problems with the award.

[goosano]

I trust that the colleagues who met secretly to appear to back her but plot to get rid of her will be reported to the GMC

[GlesgaeHibby]

Is this not absolutely ridiculous? How does someone even come to a figure like that when working out compensation? I can understand £1.75m being her loss of earnings and pension....almost. But £4.5m is obscene. If she truly loved, "cherished", the profession she wouldn't take so much money out the NHS when it's clearly struggling financially at present.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074963/Top-woman-doctor-awarded-staggering-4-5-MILLION-hounded-job-baby.html

What is ridiculous is being bullied to such an extent that it has had a profound and long term effect on her mental health. She deserves every penny IMO. The injustice here is not the payout, but that the NHS failed an employee badly.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Is this not absolutely ridiculous? How does someone even come to a figure like that when working out compensation? I can understand £1.75m being her loss of earnings and pension....almost. But £4.5m is obscene. If she truly loved, "cherished", the profession she wouldn't take so much money out the NHS when it's clearly struggling financially at present.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074963/Top-woman-doctor-awarded-staggering-4-5-MILLION-hounded-job-baby.html

I think you should turn your attention to the bosses who lost the NHS 4.5m by allowing this behaviour to continue. It amazes me how many PR people don't think that the law applies to them. Maybe it's because they get away with shoddy practice more often than they should? :dunno:

I don't know about elsewhere, but the usual way to deal with an incompetent employee in the NHS, is to promote them. This bullying comes as no surprise to me, like Doddie I have to applaud the woman for tolerating it for so long.