Readers’ panel: Does a toxic ‘put up and shut up’ culture still pervade the NHS?

After an inquest into the death of mental health nurse Rhian Collins heard that she had been bullied before taking her own life, RCN mental health forum chair Ed Freshwater told Nursing Standard that bullying is not taken seriously enough in the NHS, and that nurses who won’t ‘put up and shut up’ are often branded troublemakers. Nursing Standard readers have their say