The Hospital That Didn't Care
Joel Mapp presents a special ±«Óãtv investigation looking at how hundreds of patients died after what an inquiry called appalling suffering at Stafford hospital.
Documentary examining why it took years to uncover appalling levels of care at an NHS hospital. Former patients and NHS workers explain why alarmingly high death rates at Stafford Hospital were ignored - leading to hundreds more deaths. The programme includes an interview with a nurse who tried to blow the whistle.
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It is easy to categorise the Stafford Hospital scandal as a one-off.
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But over the years as each and every aspect of the story has been uncovered, it has become clear it is a scandal that implicates the whole health service.
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Read Nick Triggle's on the Stafford Hospital on the ±«Óãtv News website.
Nurse says hospital failed to listen
Casualty nurse Helene Donnelly explains why she was spurred to blow the whistle on Stafford Hospital and poor patient care standards.
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The 'whistleblower' nurse believes that one of the hospital's main failings was that patient care complaints "did not get listened to or acted upon".
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The hospital's new chief executive Lynn Hill-Tout says the quality of care has now improved.
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on the ±«Óãtv News website.
How patient's daughter took action
Eighty-six-year-old Bella Bailey was admitted to Stafford Hospital with a hernia in 2007.
Her daughter, Julie, was appalled by her treatment and witnessed conditions in the hospital first-hand when she stayed at her mother's bedside one night.
ÌýShe explains how this gave her the impetus to contact other people who had concerns about the standard of care at the hospital, and to take action.
ÌýThe hospital's new chief executive Lynn Hill-Tout says the quality of care is nowÌý"very much better than it was two or three years ago."
Ìýon the ±«Óãtv NewsÌýwebsite.Ìý
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NHS cover-ups 'should be a crime'
NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to a public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital.
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Years of abuse and neglect at the hospital led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients.
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The inquiry chairman, Robert Francis QC, said "fundamental change" was needed to prevent the public losing confidence in the NHS.
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on the ±«Óãtv News website.
Stafford Hospital: The victims of the hospital scandal
In the years leading up to 2008 hundreds of people died at Stafford Hospital amid "appalling" levels of care.
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Here are the stories of some of the people who suffered poor standards of care at the hospital.
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to their stories on the ±«Óãtv News website.
Stafford Hospital neglect examined
Patients left in soiled sheets, others crying out in pain and some so dehydrated they drank from flower vases.
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The heard accounts of almost in what was one of the biggest scandals the NHS has known.
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about the Hospital That Didn't Care on the ±«Óãtv website.
Rebuilding trust at Stafford Hospital
Some experts believe the Francis report could prove a watershed moment in Stafford's rehabilitation - assuming it can survive tremendous financial pressures.
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on the ±«Óãtv News website.
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Wed 6 Feb 2013 22:35±«Óãtv One West Midlands- Wed 6 Feb 2013 23:30±«Óãtv News UK
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