Medicine in Staffordshire.

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Investigation into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Meet Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare

1920, to visit and befriend all mentally handicapped people living at home and to help and advise parents about home care, especially the early training of young children. It assisted the local authority in administering the services provided under the Mental Deficiency Act. The newly-formed Association was faced with the tremendous task of compiling a register of mentally sub-normal persons in...

A just culture after Mid Staffordshire.

There has been much public and media outrage in the wake of the scandal about the standard of healthcare delivered at Stafford Hospital. Using published evidence in the safety literature, we examine the distinction between our need to understand what happened, the practical need for preventing recurrence, and the age-old philosophical need to explain suffering. Investigations of what happened c...

Causes of fatal childhood accidents in North Staffordshire, 1980-1989.

Sixty-nine children aged under 15 years were identified from coroners' records as having died as a result of an accident between 1980 and 1989. Road traffic accidents (RTAs) accounted for the majority of cases (n = 38; 55% of total) and in almost all of these, the unsafe behaviour of the child was considered to be at fault. Most fatal accidents occurred between 15.00 and 21.00 hrs and within 2 ...