Health secretary Andy Burnham has said he is “not ruling out” a public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust scandal.
He told the Birmingham Post he was “looking at the information… we’ll in due course say something more about the way forward”.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said it had “never categorically ruled out” an inquiry. The health committee last week supported the Royal College of Nursing’s call for an inquiry with evidence given in private.
A report into failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been published.
The Care Quality Commission found standards have dropped at a struggling emergency department where a nurse told inspectors: “We don’t want to release the ambulances because we know they will return with more patients.”
The trust at the centre of a lung cancer deaths scandal has been identified as an outlier for providing surgery on fewer early stage patients than is normal.
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