Mid Staffs hospital scandal where people were left dying ...
“Mid Staffs hospital scandal where people were left dying on trolleys, drinking out of flower vases, hundreds and hundreds of excess deaths. And guess what? Andy Burnham was the Health Secretary. And what did he do? He blocked a proper public inquiry. He Said it would be too distracting for managers. Not for the families watching their family members die. For the managers. That tells you everything about this so called man of the people. Protect the system protect himself, but never the people.”
Summary
The Mid Staffordshire scandal did involve patients left in filthy conditions and estimates of hundreds of excess deaths. Andy Burnham was Health Secretary in 2009‑2010, but he did not block a public inquiry; a formal inquiry was later commissioned and published in 2013. The claim that he prevented the inquiry and gave the quoted justification is inaccurate.
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- Mid Staffordshire scandal highlights NHS cultural crisis - The Lancet
The final inquiry into the care scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has revealed a profound crisis of culture at every level of the health service. David Holmes reports. It has taken more than 2 years of deliberation, evidence from more than 200 witnesses, and cost over £13 million, but last week the second Francis inquiry finally delivered its damning verdict on why, between 2005 and 2009, hundreds of patients may have died needlessly and countless more suffered appalling violations of their dignity at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
- Mid Staffordshire trust pleads guilty to health and safety breaches | The BMJ
Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which was at the centre of one of the biggest scandals to hit the health service, has pleaded guilty to “very significant” health and safety breaches in relation to the deaths of four elderly patients at Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2014.
- The Mid Staffs scandal | The BMJ
Patients and their families reported dirty wards, a lack of nursing care, and long waits for medical attention. Patients were left lying in their soiled bed sheets because they had not been taken to the toilet, and receptionists dealt with triage in the emergency department.1
- Mid Staffs hospital scandal: the essential guide | Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust | The Guardian
The Guardian reported at the time that it found "inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
- Mid Staffs scandal: Cameron apologises and vows to tackle NHS 'complacency' | Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust | The Guardian
"Managers were suppressing inconvenient facts in favour of looking for comfort in positive information … What this inquiry tells us was that there was a manifest failure to act on the data available to the hospital and more widely." Cameron commended the previous government for apologising for the scandal when it was exposed, but said the latest report revealed that blame went far further than staff and managers at the hospital.
- Mid Staffs scandal: police 'examining new evidence' | Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust | The Guardian
The Francis report into the scandal ... and 2009. Patients were left for hours sitting in their own faeces, food and drink was left out of reach, and hygiene was so poor that relatives had to clean toilets themselves....
- Stafford Hospital scandal: The real story behind Channel 4's The Cure
In 2009, a report by the Healthcare Commission laid bare the problems at Stafford, which was run by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
- BBC News - Stafford Hospital timeline
Hospital executives' evidence under spotlight The former chairman and chief executive of Stafford Hospital are referred for investigation over the hospital's death rates scandal. Stafford Borough Council wants the Crown Prosecution Service to ...
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