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Former health secretary Andy Burnham has insisted he was "actively" working to identify problems at hospitals during his time in office after being accused of putting pressure on a regulator to tone down criticisms.
The senior Labour MP faced questions about whether he influenced the Care Quality Commission (CQC) at the time it gave Morecambe Bay NHS Trust a clean bill of health despite a series of deaths of mothers and babies at Furness General Hospital.
But the shadow health secretary insisted that "far from covering up any problems at hospitals" he had asked the CQC to publicly identify organisations with weaknesses.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...andy-burnham-denies-nhs-coverup-29365194.html
The senior Labour MP faced questions about whether he influenced the Care Quality Commission (CQC) at the time it gave Morecambe Bay NHS Trust a clean bill of health despite a series of deaths of mothers and babies at Furness General Hospital.
But the shadow health secretary insisted that "far from covering up any problems at hospitals" he had asked the CQC to publicly identify organisations with weaknesses.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...andy-burnham-denies-nhs-coverup-29365194.html