Failed NHS managers now face blacklisting after Stafford Hospital scandal
ByThe Courier Reporter
General view of the Accident and Emergency Department at Stafford Hospital. The findings of the public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital are to be announced on Wednesday. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday February 4, 2013. See PA story HEALTH . Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
NHS managers responsible for failures will be barred from working in the health service and under-performing hospitals will be named and shamed under new plans to prevent a repeat of the “horrific” Stafford Hospital scandal.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the events at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust were a “betrayal of the worst kind” to patients and their families.
Responding to the Francis report into serious failings at the trust, Mr Hunt said a new chief inspector of hospitals will shine the spotlight on failing trusts.
He also introduced a legal duty for the NHS to be honest about mistakes in care. He announced plans to introduce a “national barring list” for managers who let their patients and the NHS down.
But he backed NHS boss Sir David Nicholson, who was in charge of the regional health authority responsible for the trust for a short period while patients were being mistreated.
As many as 1,200 patients may have died needlessly after they were “routinely neglected” at the hospital. Mr Hunt said he wants to embed a culture of “zero harm and compassionate care” in the NHS.
Failed NHS managers now face blacklisting after Stafford Hospital scandal
