The hon. Lady is right. What strikes me as I meet hospital managers is when they say that at their board meetings they take patient care, clinical standards and safety standards first. That is the right thing to do because if a hospital is not safe, if it is not clean and if it is not caring for people, it is not doing its job—never mind whether it is meeting its targets or whether the numbers add up. That is absolutely at the heart of this question and that is one of the things that needs to change.
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (Inquiry)
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 6 February 2013.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (Inquiry).
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