NHS Report: 11 Trusts In 'Special Measures'

The Health Secretary has revealed that 11 hospital trusts listed in a shocking report of care failures have been placed under "special measures".

Speaking in the House of Commons ahead of the publication of Professor Sir Bruce Keogh's review into 14 trusts, Jeremy Hunt said we can "no longer ignore mediocre treatment".

All of the trusts have been ordered to act on recommendations made by health officials.

The review found that none of the hospitals investigated was providing "consistently high quality care to patients".

Mr Hunt told MPs: "No statistics are perfect but mortality rates suggest that since 2005 thousands more people may have died that would normally be expected at the 14 trusts reviewed.

Sir Bruce Keogh said "mediocrity is simply not good enough"

"Worryingly, in half of those trusts, the Care Quality Commission - the regulator specifically responsible for patient safety and care - failed to spot any real cause for concern, rating them as 'compliant' with basic standards."

Tameside General Hospital in Greater Manchester was one of the worst trusts in England.

The investigation found "insufficient levels of nursing staff", "poor supervision of junior doctors by consultants" and a "lack of compassion" from staff dealing with patient complaints.

Mr Hunt said where failures have been found in hospitals like Tameside "they have been confronted straight away".

Other examples of problems included patients being left unmonitored on trolleys for excessive periods of time, staff working up to 12 days in a row and low levels of clinical cover.

Jeremy Hunt said he was "deeply proud" of the NHS

Sir Bruce, NHS England medical director, was asked to conduct a series of 'deep-dive' reviews into other hospitals with mortality rates which have been consistently high for two years or more after the Francis report into failures at the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Mr Hunt said the trusts under special measures must implement all of the recommendations of the report and external support will be provided to help them do this.

"The quality of leadership will be assessed and any senior managers who are not up to the job will be removed. And each hospital will be partnered with high performing NHS organisations to act as mentors," he said.

He added that three trusts not in special measures will still be "held to account".

Sir Bruce said: "Higher mortality rates do not always point to deaths which could have been avoided but they do act as a 'smoke alarm' indicator that there could be issues with the quality of care.

"Not one of these trusts has been given a clean bill of health by my review teams. These reviews have been highly rigorous and uncovered previously undisclosed problems.

"I felt it was crucial to provide a clear diagnosis, to write the prescription, and, most importantly, to identify what help these organisations might need to support their recovery or accelerate improvement."

Hospitals in special measures:

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Medway NHS Foundation Trust.

Hospitals not in special measures:

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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