What went wrong at Mid Staffs?

What went wrong at Mid Staffs?

What is the Mid Staffs scandal? A disputed estimate [see footnote] suggested that between 400 and 1,200 patients died as a result of poor care over the 50 months between January 2005 and March 2009 at Stafford hospital, a small district general hospital in Staffordshire.

What happened to Martin Yeates?

Mr Yeates is now the boss of Shropshire-based health charity Impact Alcohol and Addiction Services. It is believed he took over the role in August. The move has sparked anger from families who lost loved ones at Stafford Hospital.

What happened Francis report?

The Francis Report was published based on a public inquiry into poor care at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The report examined what led to poor standards of care at the hospital, unnecessary patient deaths and why the warning signs of serious failings were not recognised.

Why did Mid Staffordshire fail?

“They were failed by a system which ignored the warning signs and put corporate self-interest and cost control ahead of patients and their safety.” He said the public’s trust in the NHS had been “betrayed” and a change of culture was needed to “make sure that patients come first”.

Who is Martin Yeates?

Martin Yeates (born 24 November 1953 in Salisbury, England) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who most prominently rode for the Poole Pirates, Weymouth Wildcats and Oxford Cheetahs. He twice won the National League Pairs Championship, in 1982 with Simon Wigg and in 1983 with Simon Cross.

What is the cure about Channel 4?

What is The Cure about? The Cure charts the real life scandal at Stafford Hospital which came to national attention in 2008. Conditions of horrendous neglect saw patients left for hours in soiled sheets, with no pain relief, desperately dehydrated, in filthy wards and routinely ignored by staff.

Did miDmiD staffs bosses know what was going on?

Mid Staffs scandal: did NHS bosses know what was going on? 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. This is a modal window.

What is the ‘Mid Staffs’ scandal?

The often horrifying evidence that has emerged means “Mid Staffs” has become a byword for NHS care at its most negligent. It is often described as the worst hospital care scandal of recent times.

What went wrong at Mid Staffordshire Hospital?

In March 2009 a report from the Healthcare Commission found the standard of care at Mid Staffordshire was “appalling.” An independent inquiry, chaired by Robert Francis, reported in February 2010 that failures in patient safety and care were caused by inadequate training of staff, staff cutbacks, and overemphasis on government targets.

What does the Mid Staffs report mean for the NHS?

The report being published on 6 February 2013 of the public inquiry chaired by Robert Francis QC will be the fifth official report into the scandal since 2009, and Francis’s second into the hospital’s failings. The often horrifying evidence that has emerged means “Mid Staffs” has become a byword for NHS care at its most negligent.

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