Almost every week one reads in the Croydon Guardian and national press that Croydon University Hospital (CUH) chief executives past and present have lost an industrial tribunal over the dismissal of a renowned heart surgeon at the trust.

And, very recently, a judge at an industrial tribunal appeals hearing, brought by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, against the finding that the trust unlawfully dismissed the heart surgeon, was deemed to be without merit.

These senior staff are spending public funds to protect their own backs.

This money could be better spent on patient care. Four present/ former non-executive directors are under investigation as to their fitness to be NHS non-executive directors.

At the Health and Wellbeing board of Croydon Council I asked John Goulston: “Does your hospital allow staff to be legitimate whistleblowers?”

With a straight face, he said the trust does allow staff to whistleblow. I sniggered at this answer, he should be a comedian’s sidekick.

My next question was: “Do you have problems retaining/employing cardiac surgeons?”

Again with a straight face he said with Kings College Hospital they had no trouble.

He is not a man who recognises his own faults despite how much financially he has cost CUH, and brought disruption to a good man’s life.

PETER HOWARD by email