Mid Staffs inquiry calls for ‘fundamental change’
The inquiry into the Mid Staffs scandal recommends that NHS staff should be legally obliged to report harm to patients and the scrapping of gagging clauses preventing whistleblowing.
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Two nurses who worked at the scandal-hit mid-Staffordshire Hospital falsified records, verbally abused and deliberately left patients waiting in A &E, a hearing heard today.
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Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald interviews NHS Chief Sir David Nicholson who says he will not step aside after the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal.
The inquiry into the Mid Staffs scandal recommends that NHS staff should be legally obliged to report harm to patients and the scrapping of gagging clauses preventing whistleblowing.
The report into Mid Staffs failings recommends obliging staff to speak up about failings and more protection for whistleblowers. But given its track record, will this ever be possible in the NHS?
Ahead of a report into the failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, Victoria Macdonald asks if, even now, the complaints system is fit for purpose?
The family of two young boys killed with their aunt in a Christmas day car crash on the M6 motorway pay tribute to their “precious jewels”.
Two boys, aged four and ten, and one woman are dead after a crash on the M6 motorway between junctions 14 and 15 northbound in Staffordshire.
Hayley Fullerton had just turned one when she died from heart failure in hospital, despite her family warning staff her condition was worsening. Could her death have been prevented?
Two babies have died after the outbreak of a rare bacteria in a neonatal intensive care unit at a hospital in the West Midlands.
From drug abuse to child obesity, new profiles released by the Department of Health show the disparity of health standards across England.
A two-year-old boy who underwent emergency surgery after one of his ears and part of his nose were torn off by a dog remains critically ill in hospital.
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