Victoria Macdonald
Acute hospitals on the brink of collapse
Bad news for the newly installed health ministers from the Royal College of Physicians which warns in a report that patient care is threatened by hospitals under strain.
Bad news for the newly installed health ministers from the Royal College of Physicians which warns in a report that patient care is threatened by hospitals under strain.
As the government announces a full public inquiry into Stafford hospital, the daughter of someone who died at the hospital tells Channel 4 News she hopes it will “rip apart” NHS secrecy.
An independent inquiry into standards of care at Stafford hospital has found that patients were “routinely neglected” by an NHS trust that was preoccupied with cost-cutting, targets and processes.
Why did a host of regulators and official bodies fail to notice the appalling conditions at Stafford hospital?