Hospitals have made “no improvement” since the Mid-Staffs scandal in ensuring patients are kept safe or treated with dignity, Care Quality Commission finds Inspections which focussed on the neglect of elderly people treated in hospital found a rapidly worsening situation,… Read More ›
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Revealed: The great outsourcing scandal as firms ‘cut corners’ to cream profits off public
Private firms ‘gaming’ £100bn of government services, says think-tank Oliver Wright Thursday, 18 July 2013 Private companies providing public services are routinely “gaming the system” to make money for their shareholders at the expense of the taxpayer, a major new… Read More ›
Hospital apologises to 38 families for appalling care that saw a patient starve to death
An NHS hospital has apologised to 38 families after a patient starved to death and it left other dying people screaming in pain. From left: Patricia Bridle, Laurence Hodges, Lois Smith and Chris Grande Photo: JOHN ROBERTSON/NEWSTEAM/ANDREW FOX By Laura Donnelly,… Read More ›
Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards (U.K.)
Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. There were 558 cases last year where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of… Read More ›
A high-profile whistleblower at the Care Quality Commission, the health watchdog, was subjected to a mental health assessment after raising concerns about poor leadership and performance at the organisation, internal documents show
CQC whistleblower ‘subjected to mental health assessment’ The organisation’s chief executive Cynthia Bower stood down in February after a Government review endorsed Mrs Sheldon’s concerns about poor governance, poor leadership and unclear accountability. Mrs Sheldon, a non-executive director at the… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 