Published 4 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2297
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2297

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Staff concerns at Mid Staffordshire trust were "lost in a black hole"

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Safety concerns raised by clinical staff, including the submission of several hundred incident report forms at the troubled Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, were either "lost in a black hole" or ignored, a panel of MPs has been told.

A highly critical report by former regulator, the Healthcare Commission, in March, concluded that the lack of staff and equipment at the trust made emergency care there unsafe (BMJ 2009;338:b1141, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1141).

Witnesses at an evidence session of the parliamentary health select committee’s inquiry into patient safety on 3 June were asked what staff had done to raise the alarm through official channels about the extent of dangerously unsafe care at the trust.

Peter Daggett, consultant at the trust, said, "I and my colleagues had been raising concerns with management at all levels for some considerable time."

Howard Catton, head of policy at the Royal College of Nursing, concurred, . . . [Full text of this article]

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