When did Mid Staffs happen?

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.

How long did the Francis report take?

In total 181 witnesses gave verbal evidence over 139 days, with more than a million pages of evidence examined. Witnesses included some of the most powerful figures in the NHS.

What were the failings at Mid Staffordshire hospital?

patients not given ready access to food and water. chronic staff shortages. failure in the leadership of the hospital. a culture in which staff members who had concerns about failures in care were discouraged from speaking out.

How many people died Francis report?

It was widely reported in the media that an estimated 400 to 1,200 people could have died unnecessarily there between 2005 and 2008, though these figures were never formally published by the commission.

What did the Francis report say about Mid Staffs?

The report also found “insufficient nursing staff”, with no nurse available to triage patients. The checks for attaining foundation trust status at that time focussed primarily on finance and not quality of care. Seven months later its FT application was approved by then health minister Andy Burnham.

When was the first report on the Mid Staffs scandal published?

On Wednesday 6 February Francis will publish the report of his 31-month-long public inquiry into the scandal. His first report, published in February 2010, was an independent report under the NHS Act rather than a full-blown public inquiry.

Who was the chief executive of Mid Staffs?

One of its members William Price, who would later become the chief executive of the South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust, told the public inquiry: “Our view was that the leadership at Mid Staffs hospitals was not competent, in our view, to carry out the functions that we would expect them to carry out.”

What was the report on Mid Staffs Hospital?

The hospital’s A&E department was described as being “immune to the sound of pain” while the trust’s surgery department was labelled “inadequate, unsafe and at times frankly dangerous” in an official report.