The NHS slaughter of the innocents continues

We’ve all been horrified by the mass slaughter at the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust. Hundreds of patients die unnecessarily due to incompetent, self-serving management. But there are at least 10 hospitals with even higher mortality rates. One of these is the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton which for years has had one of the highest mortality rates in Britain (see our book Who cares? by Amanda Steane). But nobody does anything, nobody cares and our arrogant hospital executives and worthless regulators keep on getting their six-figure salaries, jobs for life and huge pensions. We should be outraged, but we’re not because we now know that this self-serving incompetence is the rule, rather than the exception, in today’s NHS.