Sometime ago, I wrote a post stating that the death rate of North Staffordshire NHS Trust was probably worse than Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
Well, today I discovered that the NHSLA figures for 2004-2005 for North Staffordshire NHS Trust were phenomenally higher than the rest of the Trusts. It has beaten all other hospitals in the area for that year at a cool £3,515,590. We assume that these would have been cases that resolved in the previous years - at least 3-5 years. Of course, when I worked on Ward 87 in 1998, it was being litigated against by many people. That is of course the manner in which people are silenced. I assume clauses are used in litigation known as gagging clauses. This is Cure the NHS, the Mid Staffs Campaign group. We shall wait and see how many lawyers pounce to silence them :). Sarah Harman is already on the prowl. It is actually a bit like the Thameside Hospital Action group who were effectively silenced by ongoing litigation. They called for all sorts of inquiries which subsequently never happened.
Well, today I discovered that the NHSLA figures for 2004-2005 for North Staffordshire NHS Trust were phenomenally higher than the rest of the Trusts. It has beaten all other hospitals in the area for that year at a cool £3,515,590. We assume that these would have been cases that resolved in the previous years - at least 3-5 years. Of course, when I worked on Ward 87 in 1998, it was being litigated against by many people. That is of course the manner in which people are silenced. I assume clauses are used in litigation known as gagging clauses. This is Cure the NHS, the Mid Staffs Campaign group. We shall wait and see how many lawyers pounce to silence them :). Sarah Harman is already on the prowl. It is actually a bit like the Thameside Hospital Action group who were effectively silenced by ongoing litigation. They called for all sorts of inquiries which subsequently never happened.
| Member name | Total paid |
|---|---|
| Burton Hospitals National Health Service Trust | 335,088 |
| Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust | 652,418 |
| North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust | 106,764 |
| Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust | 81,258 |
| Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | 951,905 |
| South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 33,420 |
| Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 0 |
| University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust | 3,515,590 |
Source - Hansard - NHSLA 2004-2005.
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