{"id":104160,"date":"2025-07-30T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104160\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:01:11","slug":"ex-nhs-manager-in-swindon-awarded-24000-for-unfair-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104160\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NHS manager in Swindon awarded \u00a324,000 for unfair dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A former NHS manager who was awarded nearly \u00a324,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal has won his latest legal battle against a hospital trust.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Hemphill, who was having chemotherapy while working as a health and safety manager, had been struggling with responsibilities that were not outlined in his contract with Swindon&#8217;s Great Western Hospital, an employment tribunal in 2024 found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge ruled Mr Hemphill had also been subject to &#8220;brutal and bullying&#8221; conduct under the then head of the hospital&#8217;s trust, Kevin McNamara. An appeal by the trust has now been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam Coleman, the trust&#8217;s chairman, said it &#8220;strongly refutes allegations of a culture of bullying&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former NHS manager who was awarded nearly \u00a324,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal has won his latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-104160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940902690308877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}