Jeremy Hunt calls for staff who contributed to the poor standards of care at Stafford Hospital to be struck off.
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.
Victoria Macdonald
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 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.
Julie Bailey, who founded campaign group Cure the NHS after her mother died at Mid Staffs hospital, responds to the report into the scandal, and comments from the government.
As Robert Francis QC publishes a long-awaited report into failings at the Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals Trust, Channel 4 News answers some of the key questions on the scandal.
Julie Bailey of Cure the NHS, Janet Davies of the Royal College of Nursing, and Ann Clywd, who was appointed to set up a review of complaints’ procedures, discuss the Mid-Staffs scandal report.
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?
Victoria Macdonald
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?
Victoria Macdonald
The Francis inquiry report into the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust will soon be published – but will those held responsible be held to account?
Ahead of a new report into what happened at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital, repeated denials by NHS bosses that they knew what was going on are cast into doubt by evidence shown to Channel 4 News.
The public inquiry into care standards in Mid Staffordshire delivers its report shortly. Channel 4 News describes how events there touched even those at the top of the NHS.
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.
A report revealing that death rates at 12 NHS hospital trusts are above expected levels warns that there could be “another mid-Staffs” as demand for care rises while standards fall.
Victoria Macdonald
The new health secretary was not at his most assured in his speech to the Conservative Party conference. But he had messages for the social care and charities sectors.