A trust focussed less on the delivery of care, and more on cutting costs, the Mid Staffordshire NHS has been found guilty of causing grotesque distress and suffering by an independent inquiry. Between 2005-2008 there were at least 400 more deaths than expected within the trust. 

 

Given that the trust has recently been given elite foundation trust status, this all points towards the failings of the NHS as a whole. The fact that a hospital with an alarming mortality rate has been steadily climbing the NHS ratings ladder, points towards a meritocracy based around cash, as opposed to care.     

 

Mistreatment occured within the trust at myriad levels: non-qualified receptionists were assessing people in A&E; accidents were a common occurance, the result of a complete lack of staff presence; immobile patients were left unwashed, covered in their own excrement.

 

This upsetting scandal highlights critical failings within the NHS, and raises questions about how something so draconic and retrograde can occur within modern society. Ostensibly the failings of the hospital stem from the fact that management were under pressure to cut spending by £10m. 

 

This emphasis on reduced spending colorably explains everything that went wrong within the trust, but it's not simply about the fact that staffing levels were too low. It must be established why the staff that were there, were able to subject patients to such sickening persecution. How do so many negligent, uncaring people, end up working in the same place? More to the point, how were they able to get away with it?    

 

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