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How neglect by an NHS hospital contributed to a teenager’s death
This is the second inquest in five days where a young person has died and the finding has been “contributed to by neglect”.
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Thousands of people fill Stafford town centre in a demonstration aimed at keeping major services at its scandal-hit hospital.
A report into failings at Stafford Hospital is expected to recommend new NHS regulation, training and attempts to weed out bad managers. Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies reports.
On the week a new public inquiry opens into events at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation trust, two newborn twins have died at the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital.
A public inquiry begins into the ‘appalling’ standards of care at Stafford hospital, which are believed to have caused hundreds of deaths. But not every official will give evidence, says Darsha Soni.
Exclusive: the head of legal services at Stafford Hospital is sacked over allegations she tried to cover up a report acknowledging potential negligence in a patient’s death.
Four young children have died in a house fire in Stafford, after a blaze started in the early hours of this morning.
This is the second inquest in five days where a young person has died and the finding has been “contributed to by neglect”.
Waiting times in England are the worst in a decade, as four hospitals declare “major incidents” and the health secretary says health bosses are “running just to keep still”.
A process that could see private companies running cancer care and end of life services in Staffordshire has been condemned by the union Unison, but is it really the thin end of the wedge?
Simon Stevens, the new of NHS England, says the health service needs to expand local services and that too many people are being robbed of “dignity and compassion” due to a lack of local care.
Hospital bosses will have to publish the number of nurses on wards in response to the Mid Staffs scandal. But the government has stopped short of imposing minimum staffing levels.
NHS chief Sir Bruce Keogh says he is taking very seriously figures revealed by Channel 4 News which show that health service patients are 45 per cent more likely to die in hospital than in the US.
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust will be dissolved and critical care, maternity and paediatric services at Stafford Hospital cut under health administrators’ proposals.
A report into serious hospital failures that reports suggest may have caused 13,000 needless deaths at 14 health trusts, is expected to say that the Mid-Staffs scandal was not a one-off.
Administrators are appointed to Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the scandal-hit trust where as many as 1,200 patients may have died needlessly due to “routine neglect”.