Francis report: Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry

Source: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry website Area: News The final Francis report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry has been published. The report examines the commissioning, supervisory and regulatory organisations in relation to their monitoring role at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between January 2005 and March 2009.  It considers why the serious problems at the Trust were not identified and acted on sooner, and identifies important lessons to be learnt for the future of patient care.   There are 290 recommendations in the report. At the highest level the report recommends the following:   . All commissioning, service provision, regulatory and ancillary organisations in healthcare should consider the findings and recommendations of this report and decide how to apply them to their own work;   . Each such organisation should announce at the earliest practicable time its decision on the extent to which it accepts the recommendations and what it intends ...
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