Yet more pressure on NHS Maternity Units today.
This time in Milton Keynes, where the local Coroner reported the Trust involved to the Department of Health, asking for an investigation into why a senior midwife’s views had been disregarded. Apparently, a registrar, after discussion with a consultant on the phone, had ignored the [...]

When things get really bad at a hospital, sometimes the staff just can’t cope anymore.
Things at Birmingham Children’s Hospital were under such stress by early November 2008, that the hospital’s own paediatric consultants went over the heads of the hospital’s management and called in the Healthcare Commission to draw attention to their own poor health [...]

The Guardian reported yesterday that Hospitals face NHS health checks:
“NHS hit squads will swoop on hospitals where unusually high rates of death, infection and botched operations appear to be harming or killing patients.
As the first healthcare system in the world to operate such a system, investigators from the Healthcare Commission, the NHS watchdog for England, [...]