A solicitor representing campaigners has condemned a second inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital as “a narrow, private process”.
Richard Stein, who is acting for the Cure the NHS (CtN) group, was speaking on the opening day of the inquiry. He said many relatives felt other reports had already established what happened to patients.
In March, a Healthcare Commission report said “appalling” emergency care had led to patients “dying needlessly”. It also condemned the local NHS trust for allowing unqualified staff to carry out checks on patients.
Stein said CtN now intended to seek a judicial review of the limited scope of the independent inquiry.
“It’s extremely disappointing for patients and for bereaved relatives that it’s going to be a narrow, private process rather than the open, public and all-embracing one that the people of Stafford need and deserve,” he said.
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the care of patients was rotten from top to bottom .my father had a stroke and was in the hospital when i went to visit the cathater drip in his arm was leeking no one at the nursing station went him when he pressed the alarm button .when i went to visit his bed was soaking wet when i asked at the nursing station could they do some thing for him i was told they would do it after visiting honest there where four of those supposed nurses and i think the only way you would get life out them would be to wire them up to the mains .not one of them showed any compassion to my father it was only by makeing a fuss that i got something done for him .but what about the other patients that didnt have any one to try and care for them