Stafford Hospital: Report to force ‘sweeping’ NHS change



5 Jan 2013
Last updated during 22:14 ET

Stafford Hospital signThe exploration looked into a deaths of 1,200 patients during Stafford Hospital

Fundamental changes to a approach NHS staff are lerned are approaching to be endorsed by an exploration that looked into a deaths of hundreds of people during Stafford Hospital.

The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times contend it will call for bad managers to be transposed and improved training for nurses and medical assistants.

The inquiry, chaired by Robert Francis QC, sat for 139 days and cost £10m.

The Department of Health says reports of a commentary were speculation.

The exploration looked into a four-year duration from 2005 where adult to 1,200 people died during a hospital, a victims of slight or sub-standard care.

It listened justification of patients failing after descending when they were left unattended and others being denied food and drink.

‘Culture of fear’

According to a Sunday Telegraph a formula of a open exploration will broach a ban outcome on a whole NHS.

It says Mr Francis will news a “culture of fear” in that vigour was piled on staff to put a final of managers before a needs of patients.

The journal claims a news will call for larger law of NHS government and an renovate of training for nurses and health assistants.

The Sunday Times says a report, that Mr Francis will palm to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt this month, will suggest a orthodox “duty of candour” that would abet hospitals to surprise patients or their kin when diagnosis has left wrong.

It says a exploration will suggest that hospitals that cover adult mistakes by doctors and nurses should be fined and even sealed down in some cases.

Mr Hunt is quoted in a Sunday Telegraph as observant a events during Stafford represented “the many intolerable profanation of NHS first values in a history”.

Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust looks after Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals.

Last month, a row allocated by a regulator Monitor pronounced a trust was “unsustainable” in a benefaction form.

Source: Health Medicine Network