David Cameron meets campaigners at Stafford Hospital
He added that what was needed was a Government that people could trust and believed that it spent its time dealing with the NHS and dealing with the economy.
Health Secretary Alan Johnson condemned “inexcusable” failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust but ruled out a public inquiry into Stafford Hospital.
Julia Bailey, founder of Staffordshire campaign group Cure the NHS, said they would continue to push for a public inquiry to be held as that was the only way of ensuring the truth was told.
She said: “We still don’t know what the death figures are. We need this aired in public or we are just going to have another fudge.”
Heather Gough, a senior A&E nurse practitioner at Stafford Hospital, said nurses were suffering a backlash of aggression and criticism after the inquiry was published.
“The report appears to have licensed people to be rude to staff,” she said.
But Julie Bailey, who set up Cure the NHS after her mother Isabella died at the hospital, said it was right that patients should be more critical of staff after a catalogue of failings for years.
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