Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (Inquiry)

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks and for the tone in which he made them. I apolog...

Today is a day on which, first of all, we think of those who suffered in Stafford and of their lo...

I am sure that my hon. Friend, who has spoken up about this issue for many years, spoke for every...

I welcome the fact that there has been a public inquiry, and I welcome the Prime Minister’s state...

I think it very important for the voice of local Members of Parliament to be listened to. The Sec...

Many of my constituents died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2009. Given Moni...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to speak up for the victims from Cannock and their families, w...

As Health Secretary, I changed the law to provide protection for whistleblowing and to make hospi...

I will consider carefully what the right hon. Gentleman has said about no-fault compensation. The...

On behalf of my constituents and the victims and relatives who have been so grievously traumatise...

I thank my hon. Friend for what he has said. He did call repeatedly for a public inquiry, and he ...

The tragic events at Stafford are having a continuing impact on both management and care at the U...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that when those above and beyond a hospital are making decisions ...

Whatever the abject clinical and management failings, this was at heart a truly disgraceful failu...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his remarks. When he has a chance to look at the report in more ...

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and the manner in which he made it. Does he agree th...

The right hon. Gentleman speaks with great knowledge of, and affection for, the NHS, and I, too, ...

I welcome the report and the Prime Minister’s response, including on the hospital inspectorate pr...

My right hon. Friend makes two points. First, I agree that we need clear lines of accountability ...

There remains real trauma and anguish in Stoke-on-Trent about the abuse, poor treatment and unnec...

Let me go directly to the important question about the reforms, the status quo once they are in p...

The Prime Minister will be aware that since the closure of the A and E at Stafford, Queen’s hospi...

I can certainly give my hon. Friend that guarantee. The whole tenor of this report is that qualit...

The Prime Minister has said that the concerns of patients’ families were ignored, but in fact the...

I listened carefully to what the hon. Gentleman said, and I am sure he is right; I do not think w...

Many of my constituents both use and depend on Stafford hospital. Will my right hon. Friend assur...

The Care Quality Commission has said that Stafford hospital is providing adequate care. There was...

Apart from addressing the training of nurses, we need nurses who do not mind wiping people’s bott...

I thank the right hon. Lady for what she says, and I am delighted that she is going to be helping...

I note that the Prime Minister shares the shock and incredulity of the people of Staffordshire, t...

I thank my hon. Friend for that. Like others, like others, Staffordshire MPs have spoken with gre...

It is quite clear that the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, which was supposed to encourage a...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point about whistleblowers and how we handle them, and ...

I do not necessarily share the enthusiasm of others for hospitals to gain foundation trust status...

My hon. Friend speaks with considerable knowledge of the NHS, and he is absolutely right to say t...

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Order. These are extremely serious matters being treated with great knowledge and sensitivity. I ...

Further to the Prime Minister’s previous answer, what precise steps will he take to force trusts ...

There are two answers. The first relates to the contracts that are signed in the first place; eve...

Will the Prime Minister ensure that the chief inspector of hospitals has access to all the inform...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. My view—we can debate this over the coming weeks—is that...

The report is clear that at the heart of this dreadful series of deaths was a failure to pursue t...

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. That is why we asked the Law Commission, as I ...

Is there not always a role for concerned community oversight? Will my right hon. Friend confirm t...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Members of scrutiny councils or any of the other bodies ...

The executive summary of the Francis report states on page 45:

“There was an unacceptable d...

What the hon. Lady says about the importance of having clear benchmarks for what is acceptable is...

I have here the executive summary to the report; it alone is 100 pages long. The Prime Minister h...

I hope that we can have not just scrutiny but a proper debate. I am sure that the Leader of the H...

I compliment the Prime Minister on his statement and my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Oppos...

I will consider carefully what the hon. Gentleman says and I am sure that colleagues in the Depar...

Of the three main failings highlighted in the Francis report, may I point out particularly to my ...

My hon. Friend is right. That was why I mentioned in my statement the importance of trying to hav...

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and I am sure that he will agree that care cannot an...

The hon. Lady is right. What strikes me as I meet hospital managers is when they say that at thei...

Crucially, the report identified the problem of inadequate staffing levels, which often lies at t...

I have said that I think there is a role for benchmarking and considering those issues, but we wo...

The Prime Minister mentioned that Members of Parliament should be involved and I think the report...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about how things have changed, and perhaps we should look a...

As part of the Government’s response to the report, may I urge the Prime Minister to look at the ...

I certainly think Health Ministers should look at what my hon. Friend says. One of the outcomes s...

I would like to speak from my recent experience of being a chief exec of a children’s hospice. Th...

I am sure the hon. Lady is right, and I agree that there are many examples of excellent practice,...

“Systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.” That is T. S. Eliot, but it is a slightly ...

My hon. Friend packed a lot into her question, but I agree that we need greater clinical leadersh...

Does the Prime Minister agree that what happened at Mid Staffs was not just a failure of regulati...

The hon. Lady speaks for everyone in saying that, which is why all these organisations, including...

Page 1312 of volume 2 of the report describes a meeting that took place on 14 May 2008 between th...

My hon. Friend is right to raise that issue. We should be clear, however, that David Nicholson ha...

Speaking as a former care worker and president of Unison, which is the biggest trade union repres...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Clearly, a health service facing growing demands req...

I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to all those NHS staff who go to work with great care...

My hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge about the NHS, with her long years of experience as a ...

Hospitals do not exist in isolation. Will Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s immediate investigation int...

Yes, I am sure he will do that. These things do not exist in isolation, but I hope we can do such...

With increasing local clinician influence and with the increasing influence of local councillors ...

There is everything that Francis says in his report about the importance of quality and a culture...

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. Reports received by trust directors, governors and ...

Yes, the hon. Gentleman is entirely right. That is why the role of chief inspector of hospitals c...

Will the Prime Minister join me in praising the brave staff in the community and in the hospitals...

I certainly join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to health care professionals in Cornwall. I am ...

I commend the Prime Minister for his words and work on the issue. In the culture that he seeks, i...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the role of chaplains. If those who are closely...

To tackle the culture of complacency that my right hon. Friend spoke about, will he take this opp...

I am very happy to do that and to clarify that they are responsible for standards of care, clinic...

Thousands of people outside the Chamber will be worried about what is going on in their own local...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. There is lots of fantastic practice in our NHS right acr...

Can my right hon. Friend assure me that in implementing the recommendations of the report, he wil...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There has been a sense sometimes that when problems occur, th...

I welcome the greater focus on care as well as finance in assessing performance that the Prime Mi...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. One of the aims of the reforms is to give greater clinic...

A legal duty of candour would have ensured that the serious and systemic failures at Mid Stafford...

It is right for my hon. Friend to speak out for the victims and to raise a specific case. The Hea...

One of the clear causes of the tragedy, according to Francis, is a

“failure to appreciate…t...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. What Francis says is:

“A failure to appreciate...

My right hon. Friend’s statement was hard listening for those of us who care about the NHS and re...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I remember going to the Royal College of Nursing conference a...

I welcome the proposals for the CQC to make public judgments about the quality of care, but those...

Yes, my hon. Friend makes a very important point. If we are going to challenge complacency and ha...

Like the Prime Minister, I have a personal debt to the NHS: it saved my life when I had cancer as...

I am grateful for what my hon. Friend says. I am not claiming that the friends and family test is...

My right hon. Friend compared the new inspection regime to that in schools. However, is not the c...

My hon. Friend, who has great experience of being at the sharp end of inspections in schools, spe...

I am most grateful to the Prime Minister and to colleagues. I think that everything has now been ...