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Scandals and cover-ups over patient deaths at hospitals in Morecambe Bay and Mid Staffordshire are evidence of a ?rotten culture? in the NHS, a health minister says.
Dr Dan Poulter suggests that the recent hospital scandals go beyond local failures and point to a wider problem in the health service which sees ?institutional secrecy put ahead of patient safety?.
Dr Poulter?s words, in an article for The Daily Telegraph, are the strongest criticism yet of health service scandals by a Coalition minister.
The way the NHS treats patients and deals with clinical failures is at the top of the political agenda after disclosures that errors that killed mothers and as many as 16 babies at Furness General Hospital were covered up by a health regulator.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10138140/Rotten-NHS-culture-led-to-cover-ups.html
Dr Dan Poulter suggests that the recent hospital scandals go beyond local failures and point to a wider problem in the health service which sees ?institutional secrecy put ahead of patient safety?.
Dr Poulter?s words, in an article for The Daily Telegraph, are the strongest criticism yet of health service scandals by a Coalition minister.
The way the NHS treats patients and deals with clinical failures is at the top of the political agenda after disclosures that errors that killed mothers and as many as 16 babies at Furness General Hospital were covered up by a health regulator.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10138140/Rotten-NHS-culture-led-to-cover-ups.html