NHS 'Cover-Up' Staff To Be Named

Staff at the NHS watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, accused of covering-up failures by an NHS watchdog to properly investigate baby deaths are to be named.

The Care Quality Commission has been accused of destroying an internal report into maternity units that were part of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.

An independent investigation that was leaked on Wednesday found the CQC failed to properly inspect the Morecambe Bay Trust, where up to 16 babies died.

However, CQC chief executive David Behan had said that legal advice was being reviewed to see if the names of those responsible for deleting a critical review of the initial inspection could be "put into the public domain".

He said: "Ever since I commissioned this independent review it has been our intention to place the report into the public domain.

"We received legal advice that we could not name individuals and to do so would be to break the law. We are now seeking a review of the original legal advice."

Joshua Titcombe died in Furness General Hospital after staff failures

However, Health Minister Earl Howe and sources close to the Health Secretary have told Sky News that the name of the staff behind the "cover-up" will now be named.

Concerns were first raised in 2008, but in 2010 the CQC gave the trust, which serves 365,000 people in south Cumbria and north Lancashire, a clean bill of health.

Wednesday's report suggested that CQC bosses were so concerned about protecting the watchdog's reputation that they ordered an internal review to be deleted because it showed their original inspection was flawed.

One of the senior managers at the CQC at the time refused to comment when contacted by Sky News.

Jill Finney was Deputy Chief Executive at the CQC between 2009 and March 2013 and put the phone down when asked if she would discuss the scandal.

She is now Chief Commercial Officer at internet firm Nominet UK.

Joshua Titcombe died in 2008 aged just nine days old in Furness General Hospital, one of the hospitals overseen by Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, after staff failed to spot and treat an infection.

His father James said the news of the cover-up was "shocking".

"It embodies everything that is wrong with the culture in the NHS. It's something that's been rotten really about the system," he said.

"We need it to change. We need that culture to change. Patient safety should be the number one priority, and organisations that work within regulation need to be aligned with that principle."

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