When protections will be put in place to protect NHS whistleblowers.

Robust protections for NHSScotland whistleblowers are already in place.
Each health board has a whistleblowing policy based on the national model Implementing and Reviewing Whistleblowing Arrangements in NHSScotland PIN Policy, published in December 2011. This encourages and supports staff to raise any concerns they may have about practices in the NHS, and sets out minimum requirements for local policies, including the protection afforded under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 to those employees and ex-employees who raise a genuine whistleblowing concern.
Additionally, in April 2013, the Scottish Government introduced the NHSScotland confidential alert line. This service, run by an independent whistleblowing charity, provides a safe space where staff, who feel they may be victimised as a result of whistleblowing, can raise concerns about patient safety and malpractice and, where appropriate, have these concerns passed to the health board or appropriate regulatory body on their behalf.
This service is currently being reviewed and an announcement on the future of the service will be made shortly.