Nurse blames manager for whistle-blowing sack

The manager behind the unfair dismissal of a ‘suicidal’ nurse was part of a hidden agenda to sack her after she blew the whistle on her hospital’s failings, a tribunal heard. Jean Haydr was dismissed amid claims she behaved unprofessionally and mistreated patients at Tameside Hospital, Lancashire, in 2013. She breached Thameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s social media policy by publishing Facebook posts criticising the hospital’s standard of patient care. But an investigation found other claims against Mrs Haydr, including…