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  • 29 Aug 2013

    The scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire trust is to be prosecuted over the death of Gillian Astbury in 2007. But Julie Bailey of Cure the NHS tells Channel 4 News it is “too little, too late”.

  • 14 Jul 2013

    Up to 13,000 people have died needlessly in 14 NHS trusts across England since 2005, a damning report from NHS medical director Bruce Keogh is expected to say this week.

  • 10 Jul 2013

    Healthcare assistants do jobs which should be done by doctors and nurses, such as inserting intravenous drips, without having to take formal training, a review has found.

  • 21 May 2013

    NHS Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson, who has come under fire for alleged failings when he led the Mid-Stafforshire NHS trust, is to retire next year.

  • 22 Apr 2013

    David Cameron says most people agree that would-be nurses should spend time as a healthcare assistant before starting their training, after a union leader calls the reforms a “stupid idea”.

  • 26 Mar 2013

    Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlines changes following the Mid Staffs scandal, with the NHS expected to be honest about mistakes and nurses forced to work as healthcare assistants.

  • 13 Mar 2013

    Unanswered questions over Mid-Staffs

    Sir David Nicholson, the chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, refuses to be filmed over questions over failing health care at Mid-Staffs NHS.

  • 5 Mar 2013

    Sir David Nicholson, who presided over the scandal at the Mid Staffordshire hospital, tells MPs he is “absolutely determined” to lead NHS health reforms despite calls for him to resign.

  • 6 Feb 2013

    The report into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal says hundreds of patients were exposed to risk because of systemic failings “at every level”, but stops short of laying blame at individuals.

  • 16 Sep 2009

    Will we ever learn the full truth?

    Is there a cover-up under way over the 400 extra deaths at the Stafford Hospital? The NHS has accepted that at least 400 more people died at the hospital between 2005 and 2008 than would be normal.

  • 6 Aug 2018

    A man has appeared in court today charged with the murder of the midwife Samantha Eastwood. The body of the 28-year-old was discovered in a rural Staffordshire on Saturday. Our North of England Correspondent Clare Fallon is outside the Royal Stoke University Hospital where Ms Eastwood worked.

  • 4 Aug 2018

    A formal identification of the body has yet to take place, but forensic teams are at the scene near Caverswall in Staffordshire. Samantha Eastwood was last seen on CCTV, in her scrubs after a night shift, leaving Royal Stoke University Hospital on July 27. Our north of England correspondent Clare Fallon reports from Caverswall.

  • 3 Aug 2018

    The last time Samantha Eastwood was seen was when she left her night shift as a midwife at a Staffordshire hospital last Friday.  A man’s been arrested in connection with her disappearance but has since been released pending further enquiries.  Today her younger sister, Gemma, made an emotional appeal to anyone who knows anything about…

  • 10 Jan 2018
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    The NHS is in crisis. But are regions with large migrant populations suffering more? FactCheck takes a look.

  • 6 Oct 2017

    Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel has given unique and detailed scrutiny to the issue of deaths in custody. He’s spoken extensively to the families of men who have killed themselves or died in prisons, or police cells – and looked into how these events are investigated in the aftermath. These are his key…

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