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.
A former long-serving NHS chief executive has taken over the NHS Leadership Academy as interim lead.
NHS chiefs in Somerset say a merger between the county’s main acute and community and mental health trusts will deliver annual recurrent savings of nearly £20m.
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The trusts in line to receive £200m for upgrading cancer screening equipment from the government have been announced.
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