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BARTS Trust came under growing pressure yesterday over its failure to produce documents backing up its claims against sacked trade union rep and NHS whistleblower Charlotte Monro.
Twice during proceedings at the Anchorage House employment tribunal in Docklands, east London, Judge Jonathan Ferris asked why the legal team were unable to produce key documents.
The first instance came in relation to a disciplinary charge against Ms Monro over what was claimed to be a breach of confidentiality regarding staff matters.
“We didn’t consider the contents of the consultation evidence confidential,” defended Ms Monro, under pressured questioning from the Barts Trust barrister Nadia Motraghi.
Judge Ferris, who criticised the Trust’s counsel for “bludgeoning” Ms Monro, intervened to state that the tribunal could do with seeing the consultation document which had gone missing.
The second missing document concerned a listing of Ms Monro’s convictions back in the 1970s. The convictions had been one of the grounds for Ms Monro’s original dismissal.
Ms Monro had failed to declare the convictions when she first applied and obtained her job at Whipps Cross hospital in 1987.
It was when Ms Monro was asked to complete a CRB check in March 2013 to reveal any convictions that she openly went to her line manager explaining the situation.
Ms Monro was assured that it was clear she was no risk to patients or public and as the convictions were so long ago it was unlikely to be a problem, but advice would be sought about process.
She heard nothing until four months later, after she had spoken to the local council scrutiny committee the convictions were added to accusations relating to her union activities.
by Paul Donovan at the Docklands Tribunal
