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Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, England’s NHS medical director has made a review as a part of investigation into fourteen NHS trusts in England regarding higher-than-expected hospital death rates.
Keogh review was established in the wake of the Mid-Staffordshire Hospital scandal in which poor caring standards, which may have led to the deaths of hundreds of patients, were disclosed.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has commented on the review, which was commissioned by Prime minister David Cameron in February after the Francis inquiry into high death rates in Mid-Staffs.
Mr. Hunt said 14 hospitals were not providing adequate care and external teams were being sent in to oversee 11 of them because of “fundamental breaches of care”.
All 14 “failing” hospitals are being issued with notices to bring improvement in the prescribed standards.
Sir Bruce examined 14 other NHS trusts with high death rates which have paid out a combined £234m in negligence settlements in the past three years.
These trusts have been responsible for13,000 “needless” deaths since 2005.
The hospitals are: Basildon and Thurrock in Essex; United Lincolnshire; Blackpool; the Dudley Group, West Midlands; George Eliot, Warwickshire; Northern Lincolnshire and Goole; Tameside, Greater Manchester; Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire; Colchester, Essex; Medway, Kent; Burton, Staffordshire; North Cumbria; East Lancashire; and Buckinghamshire Healthcare.
Sir Bruce will describe in the report how each hospital ignored its patients badly through and provided poor care, medical errors and failures of management, and will show that the scandal of Stafford Hospital, where up to 1,200 patients died needlessly, was not a one-off.
After the publication of review on Tuesday, hit squads will be sent into several of the trusts with others put on “special measures”.
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