Stafford Hospital linked to poor care in UK
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today said poor care in the NHS could be traced back to the Stafford Hospital scandal, as he revealed 3,000 patients died needlessly in the UK last year.
Mr Hunt said 'shocking lapses of care' had led to the UK becoming 'so numbed to the inevitability of patient harm that we accept the unacceptable'. He called for a change in culture that meant errors and injuries from care were constantly revealed and reduced.
It came after the head of a West Midlands health watchdog when the Stafford scandal broke was forced to resign from her current health role over a cover-up of failures over deaths of babies.
The Care Quality Commission's former chief executive, Cynthia Bower, was present during a discussion of the deletion of an internal review which criticised the regulator's inspections of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
