Stafford Hospital accused of appalling emergency care resulting in patients dying needlessly NHS watchdog has says.

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	Stafford Hospital have been accused of "appalling" emergency care resulting in patients dying needlessly, the NHS watchdog has said. The Healthcare Commission said there were deficiencies at "virtually every stage" of emergency care and said managers pursued targets at the detriment of patient care. Speaking today, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said "On behalf of the government and the NHS I would like to apologise to the patients and families of patients who have suffered because of the poor standards of care at Stafford Hospital. "There was a complete failure of management to address serious problems and monitor performance. This led to a totally unacceptable failure to treat emergency patients safely and with dignity. "Local patients will want absolute certainty that Stafford Hospital has been transformed since this investigation began." The commission said that, while it was impossible to blame all of the the 400 extra deaths on the hospital's care, some patients would have died as a result. Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "The public will be rightly shocked by the poor standards of care exposed at this hospital. "It is unacceptable that the pursuit of targets - not the safety of patients - was repeatedly prioritised, alongside endless managerial change and a 'closed' culture, which failed to admit and deal with things going wrong." Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb, called for a "cultural change so that every part of this trust has open and transparent systems in place to ensure patient safety". Click here to start your claim against Stafford Hospital.



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