The increasing emphasis on best-practice has meant that health care professionals are keenly encouraged to ensure delivery of the highest quality service provision. Where professionals are witness to serious professional misconduct ‘whistleblowing’ in considered as the last resort towards eliciting action and change. However, research suggests that the outcome for the whistleblower and in some cases, the services themselves, rarely exceeds, impacts or indeed even equals the benefit of exposing the problem. Researchers in the area concur that there requires a review of policy and procedure in this area. In considering the experiences of whistleblowers within healthcare services, this paper aims to pose a number of questions for service managers and policy makers to consider, in order to review existing whistleblowing guidelines, with the hope of improving an already prohibitive procedure and ultimately representing true, best practice across all levels of health care services.