title: Learning the lessons from Stafford failings.
abstract: The damning findings of the latest Francis Inquiry, headed up by Robert Francis QC, and set up to examine the deficiencies in the monitoring of patient safety and well-being at the main hospital run by the Mid Staffordshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Stafford Hospital, between January 2005 and March 2009, by the commissioning, supervisory, and regulatory bodies responsible, have been published. As HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie reports, they will make uncomfortable reading for a wealth of different organisations--from the Trust itself to the Care Quality Commission, Monitor, the Department of Health, the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, and The Health Protection Agency, and well also cause significant concern within the nursing and clinical professions.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D033161:Government Regulation; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety