No Excuses
In the ongoing battle for hearts and minds over the impact of public spending cuts - the facts are often casually set aside.
Yesterday - on the day a fulll public inquiry opened into the unecessary deaths of up to 1200 patients at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust - the unions issued dire warnings about planned cuts 'turning back the clock' on patient care.
Well try telling that to the families and relatives who lost loved ones at Stafford Hospital - due to appalling standards of care between 2005 and 2009 - a period when NHS spending was on the rise.
A secret inquiry into standards of care at the hospital - held last year - found between 400 and 1,200 patients died after suffering routine neglect by hospital staff.
The public inquiry will now get to the bottom of what went so disastrously wrong - and why?
But the point is that while 'routine neglect' is not acceptable under any circumstances - somehow a major NHS hospital managed to betray a large numberof patients and their families.
There are no excuses - least of all NHS 'cuts'.
Yesterday - on the day a fulll public inquiry opened into the unecessary deaths of up to 1200 patients at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust - the unions issued dire warnings about planned cuts 'turning back the clock' on patient care.
Well try telling that to the families and relatives who lost loved ones at Stafford Hospital - due to appalling standards of care between 2005 and 2009 - a period when NHS spending was on the rise.
A secret inquiry into standards of care at the hospital - held last year - found between 400 and 1,200 patients died after suffering routine neglect by hospital staff.
The public inquiry will now get to the bottom of what went so disastrously wrong - and why?
But the point is that while 'routine neglect' is not acceptable under any circumstances - somehow a major NHS hospital managed to betray a large numberof patients and their families.
There are no excuses - least of all NHS 'cuts'.
