By Claire Ellicott PUBLISHED: 18:49 EST, 17 February 2013 | UPDATED: 06:04 EST, 18 February 2013 Hounded out: David Bowles said he told Sir David Nicholson that United Lincolnshire Hospitals was being put under 'huge pressure' to meet non-urgent targets A whistleblower wrote to the head of the NHS to warn his trust was ‘slipping into Mid Staffordshire territory’. David Bowles told Sir David Nicholson that United Lincolnshire Hospitals was being put under ‘huge pressure’ to meet non-urgent targets. He said patient safety was being compromised as it had been in Stafford where 1,200 lives are thought to have been lost needlessly.
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David Bowles told Sir David Nicholson United Lincolnshire Hospitals was under 'huge pressure' to meet non-urgent targets
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Said patient safety was being compromised in same way as Stafford
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Hounded out of job as chairman just like Gary Walker
He claimed staff at the strategic health authority ‘resorted to harassment and  bullying’ and ‘demanded without caveat... an unequivocal assurance or guarantee the non-emergency 18-week targets will be met in a manner which could be construed as an attempt to bully me and my trust into becoming a @placeholder and so put patient safety at risk’.