{"id":26965,"date":"2013-02-10T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T11:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/top-nurse-appalled-scandal-012218585.html"},"modified":"2013-02-10T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T11:17:17","slug":"care-staff-should-be-struck-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/care-staff-should-be-struck-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Care staff ‘should be struck off’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doctors, nurses and managers responsible for the bad care that led to hundreds of deaths in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS scandal should be struck off, the Health Secretary says.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Hunt described the failure to hold anybody to account so far for events at Stafford Hospital was “one of the most shocking things about this”.<\/p>\n

“I think this is a problem, I think accountability is very, very important,” he told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show.<\/p>\n

Asked whether the doctors, nurses and managers responsible for the situation should be struck off, he said: “Absolutely. The question I ask as Health Secretary is why is it we have a system where potentially 1,000 people have lost their lives because of bad care and no-one’s brought to book.<\/p>\n

“But I also don’t want to make the mistake of thinking this was all about bad apples.”<\/p>\n

Mr Hunt has also indicated that the police should follow the evidence arising from Robert Francis’s inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n

The inquiry report described a “disaster” in standards of basic care and medical treatment that could have caused up to 1,200 premature deaths.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg reiterated that the police should look at the evidence to establish where there is “clear culpability”.<\/p>\n

He told Sky News’ Murnaghan programme: “My own view has always been that there are parts of poor and criminal behaviour in our society where we are sometimes not tough enough.<\/p>\n

“White collar crime, we are not as tough as the Americans in saying if someone has committed a white collar crime and others have had to pick up the pieces – we have seen the anger, quite legitimate public anger about the terrible failings in the banking system – I think quite understandably many people say when are people going to be held to account for this?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Doctors, nurses and managers responsible for the bad care that led to hundreds of deaths in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS scandal should be struck off, the Health Secretary says.
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