Wednesday, 12 May 2010

CQC Comments on North Staffordshire NHS Trust


During my own investigations of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, it was discovered that their compensation was about three times that of Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. I wrote the piece here and quoted some figures from Hansard. To match this data, I recently found a surprising admission from the CQC. This is the beauty of FOIAs. What is said to your face isn't necessarily what is said internally.

Chris Sherlaw-Johnson who is the Surveillance Manager at the Care Quality Commission stated as follows [ Email from him to Sarah Seaholme dated 9th December 2009] at 13.15.

"Earlier data from Dr Foster does suggest that they did have more concerning mortality in years before 2003/4".

Chris then went onto do the usual " We beg to differ with Dr Foster"

The question of course is this - what was the data regarding Dr Foster and why has it been concealed from me [ as usual] :). Not for long though eh.

Hope the conceited lot at the GMC are reading this.


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