Stafford scandal: Let’s face the truth about our uncaring, selfish and cruel NHS
It is officially calculated that, between 2005 and 2009, up to 1,200 patients at Stafford Hospital died needlessly. Let us imagine that a comparable disaster occurred in any other institution or...
View ArticleSir David Nicholson is partly to blame for Mid Staffs, Jeremy Hunt says
Speaking in the Commons during a debate on NHS accountability, Mr Hunt, the Health Secretary, became the most senior Government figure to admit that Sir David, the NHS chief executive, was partly at...
View ArticleNew criminal offence to stop NHS hospitals ‘fiddling’ figures to be introduced
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is to announce that senior NHS managers and hospital trusts will be held criminally liable if they manipulate figures on waiting times or death rates. Trusts could be...
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