Mid Staffordshire - some reflections for clinicians

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Investigation into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

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...

After Mid Staffordshire: from acknowledgement, through learning, to improvement.

To cite: Martin GP, DixonWoods M. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:706–708. For many readers, the story of the quality of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust in the UK from 2005 to 2009 will need little introduction. The substandard care provided and the combination of circumstances that allowed such a situation to persist for several years have received widespread attention in the general media as well as...

Clinical neurology of yesterday, today and tomorrow; some mid-century reflections.

Just as the central nervous system has a central and dominant posi­ tion in the human body, so neurology should have by right a central position in medical science. This obvious point of view is gradually gain­ ing ground. But it has not always been so and in many otherwise civilized countries neurology has not even yet come into its own. In some countries like France clinical neurology has for...