David Cameron meets campaigners at Stafford Hospital
CONSERVATIVE Party leader David Cameron told Midland hospital campaigners during a visit to the region that improving the National Health Service remained one of his top priorities.
Mr Cameron was speaking as he met campaigners at Stafford Hospital which was condemned last month for providing appalling standards of care.
A damning report from the Healthcare Commission detailed a catalogue of failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Stafford and Cannock Chase hospitals.
Appalling and “shocking” standards of care for patients admitted through A&E put many people at risk and led to deaths, it said.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period from 2005 to 2008.
Mr Cameron said: “I am standing here in front of a hospital where there was the most appalling set of circumstances and people being treated incredibly badly. That is the priority for me, the NHS. That’s the priority for the British people.”
