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 government’s 10-Year Health Plan has vowed to stop “repetitive” and “irrelevant” training that takes up NHS staff time.
The key new policies revealed in today’s 10-Year Health Plan – across finance, performance, tech, workforce, innovation and care quality.
An integrated care board has been told to reconsider its award of a contract worth £82m after making a string of errors in the process, including failing to properly assess value for money.
A hospital has denied its chief executive was “confrontational” at a meeting with a billionaire donor.
A trust has been ordered to re-run part of a procurement process after a watchdog ruled it did not respond promptly to requests for information from an unsuccessful bidder.
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