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Sir David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive caught up in the Stafford hospital scandal, has announced that he will step down from his post next March.
Nicholson came under intense political pressure after publication of the Francis report, which looked at scandalous lack of care at the hospital for four years from 2005. He was briefly head of the local strategic health authority when the first of the serious concerns about Mid Staffs began to emerge.
Campaigners ? led by Julie Bailey and Cure the NHS ? whose family members died "unnecessarily" at Stafford hospital called for him to go and the Daily Mail branded him as "the man with no shame" for staying in post.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/21/nhs-chief-step-down-mid-staffs
Nicholson came under intense political pressure after publication of the Francis report, which looked at scandalous lack of care at the hospital for four years from 2005. He was briefly head of the local strategic health authority when the first of the serious concerns about Mid Staffs began to emerge.
Campaigners ? led by Julie Bailey and Cure the NHS ? whose family members died "unnecessarily" at Stafford hospital called for him to go and the Daily Mail branded him as "the man with no shame" for staying in post.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/21/nhs-chief-step-down-mid-staffs