Victoria Macdonald
How blowing the whistle cost two men their NHS careers
Two doctors separated by two decades – but their treatment after blowing the whistle on NHS problems shows that little has been learned from the past.
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NHS patient neglect to be made a crime
The wilful neglect of patients is to be made a criminal offence under NHS reforms being introduced in the wake of the Mid Staffs and other care scandals.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Victoria Macdonald
I do not hate the NHS
The vitriol and abuse I received following a story comparing US and UK mortality rates was astonishing. But if we don’t point out the bad and good of the NHS, will it ever achieve its potential?
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NHS trust admits safety failings over patient death
The much-criticised Mid Staffs NHS trust faces an unlimited fine after admitting breaching health and safety laws over the death of a diabetic patient who was not given insulin.
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Future leaders: will ‘high fliers’ rescue the NHS?
Health groups welcome plans to turn doctors and nurses into “high-flying” managers under a new government scheme but warn that hospital wards mustn’t be left short-staffed.
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Victoria Macdonald
More calls for candour as NHS whistleblower hounded from UK
MPs call for more openness about NHS care quality and staffing levels, even as another NHS whistleblower is hounded from his job for raising concerns about the well-known hospital he worked at.
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NHS hospital death rates among worst, new study finds
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.
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Mid Staffs trust to be prosecuted over patient death
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”.
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Crisis-hit Mid Staffs hospital trust ‘to be dissolved’
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust will be dissolved and critical care, maternity and paediatric services at Stafford Hospital cut under health administrators’ proposals.
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Condition critical: parties clash over damning NHS report
Conservative and Labour politicians exchange verbal blows as they blame each other for major failings in 11 hospital foundation trusts, as identified in a report by NHS England’s medical director.
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How a ‘simple mistake’ led to the death of a pensioner
The family of a pensioner who died in an NHS hospital after being wrongly given solid food talks to Channel 4 News about what happened.
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NHS deaths: the ‘political pressure’ on regulators
Sir Brian Jarman, an expert in hospital mortality, says there is evidence of political pressure on regulators which could explain why the extent of “needless” deaths on the NHS was previously unknown.
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NHS: 13,000 needless deaths across 14 trusts
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.
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Victoria Macdonald
More talk more NHS action? Really?
NHS bosses warn the system’s future depends on radical changes. So they are asking us what we think. But will they listen to our answers?
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Mid-staffs recommendations ‘watered down’ in new care report
Campaigner Julie Bailey tells Camilla Cavendish, author of a review recommending training for healthcare assistants, that her “woolly” report is disappointing with no reference to a workers’ register.
