Mid Staffordshire Hospital updated again.

I keep hoping it will be the last time I Blog about Mid Stafford Hospital trust but it just keeps getting worse.
Recently, one nurse was struck off and another had a limited suspension. One of those two continues to be a manager at that trust - I'm still waiting for the decision as to whether she is a fit person to still be working there.

This weekend, the real victims of all this, the patients, were marching in their thousands. They want to keep Stafford Hospital open, with its Accident and Emergency and Maternity unit and why not?

Haven't they earnt the right to have a good, functioning local hospital to put right all the wrongs that have been done to them?

The only response from the NHS has been to merge this failed trust out of existence and to pay for it all? Shut down Stafford hospital.

meanwhile the managers went on to better things - big payouts or promotions.

What about the lead Clinicians?

 BBC News - 23 September 2013
No action over Stafford Hospital doctorsBy Nick Triggle

Health correspondent, BBC News


Four senior doctors who worked at Stafford Hospital at the height of the neglect
and abuse scandal will not face disciplinary action.
Dr John Gibson, Dr Valerie Suarez, Dr David Durrans and Dr Dermot Mulherin, who
all held senior management positions, were investigated by the General Medical
Council.
But the regulator has now said it is dropping the cases.
Legal advice found there was "no realistic prospect" of success.
The decision comes after widespread criticism when the public inquiry was
published in February that those responsible for the scandal have not been held
to account.
At the time, Prime Minister David Cameron said the likes of the GMC and the
Nursing and Midwifery Council had "some difficult questions to answer".
Since then three nurses have been struck off the register - with one
disciplinary hearing ongoing.
The GMC has given warnings and advice to other doctors who worked at Stafford
Hospital.
But as yet no-one has been struck off for their role in providing medical care -
one doctor has been erased from the register for fraud.
'Systematic management problems'

GMC chief executive Niall Dickson said: "Following the extensive investigations
we have undertaken there is not the evidence to establish either misconduct or
impairment against any of the doctors."
The GMC got legal advice from Tom Kark QC, who worked on the public inquiry,
after taking statements from 26 witnesses.
Mr Kark advised the GMC that while there was evidence that would have
demonstrated there were systematic management problems at the trust - none of it
could be attributed to any individual doctor.
However, Mr Dickson said he was in talks with the Department of Health to relax
the regulatory framework under which the regulator operates.
At the moment, the GMC has to not only prove that a doctor's performance fell
below what was expected, but that they also provide an ongoing risk to patients.
The GMC believes the system would be improved if cases were only judged on what
the individual has done.
"We are not a doctors club. We are not here to protect doctors," Mr Dickson
added.
But Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said while it would be unfair
to comment on the four individuals, serious questions needed to be asked about
the regulatory process.
"The general delay in holding individuals to account for failings at Stafford is
outrageous.
"Years on, and after huge numbers of avoidable deaths, we have still only just
scratched the surface of holding the nurses, clinicians and managers to account
for the failings that occurred."

Neil Harris
(a don't stop till you drop production)
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