Bosses at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital escape scot-free

By Rebecca Smith Medical Editor Published: 9:59PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Patients, majority of whom were treated with colour with colour at the trust?s main sanatorium in Stafford, were "robbed of their dignity" Photo: PA

No one on the house at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has faced condemnation and all of them were possibly paid off, walked in to an additional pursuit or authorised to sojourn in post. The man who ran the sanatorium certitude perceived a large pay-off notwithstanding his piece in the scandal.

Martin Yeates, the former arch executive, left the certitude "by mutual agreement" with a pay-off of �400,000 and a grant value �1.27 million, it has been alleged.

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The miss of disciplinary movement emerged after the announcement of a ban inform in to the diagnosis of patients in between 2005 and 2008.

An eccentric inform commissioned by the Government found that patients were abused and not asked by antagonistic staff and were left in degrading and vulgar conditions. The stroke on them was "unimaginable", the inform said.

Patients, majority of whom were treated with colour with colour at the trusts main sanatorium in Stafford, were "robbed of their dignity", left in contaminated bedclothes, unsanitary and in states of strip in full perspective of others, it found.

Families of patients had to purify lavatories and open areas themselves, whilst food and drinks were left out of reach and, it was alleged, patients drank out of vases.

Attitudes of staff were at times "uncaring". Managers were "in denial" about the problems and were concentrating on slicing costs and attack targets to grasp substructure certitude status, the inform said.

There was pronounced to be a enlightenment of fright and bullying with staff endangered they would lose their jobs if targets were not hit.

The inform followed an eccentric exploration chaired by Robert Francis QC, a dilettante in clinical negligence, who has acted in prior high-profile inquiries. It found that eighteen of the twenty-two house members who ran the certitude over the duration underneath review had right afar left their roles, with nothing confronting disciplinary action.

Many went on to senior, well-paid remunerative positions elsewhere in the NHS.

Mr Yeates, 51, did not give justification in authority to the exploration due to ill health and is not thought to be working. The trusts majority new accounts show that he had built a grant pot value some-more than �1.27 million by the time he stepped down, entitling him to annual payments of some-more than �65,000.

The Government has formerly stepped in to stop a payout to a arch comparison manager of a unwell trust.

Rose Gibb, who left her post at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells in 2007 days prior to a vicious inform in to the widespread of Clostridium difficile on packed wards, was in line for a �250,000 payment.

Speaking about the Staffordshire inform last night, Katherine Murphy, the senior manager of the Patients Association, said: "It is positively outrageous and a sum liaison that no comparison managers have been trained over the abominable standards of caring patients suffered at this trust."

Ken Lowndes, a orator for the debate organization Cure the NHS, said: "No one has been trained possibly internally by the hospital, underneath the old system of administration or the stream one, no one has been trained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and no one has been trained by the GMC (General Medical Council).

"The Government has attempted to have out that this was only a couple of decaying apples in the tub but it was not. The total enlightenment at the sanatorium was similar to this."

Toni Brisby, the authority of the certitude at the time, was authorised to step down but remuneration when a inform by the Healthcare Commission last year disclosed the border of the problems at the certitude and the high mankind rates.

Jan Harry, the senior manager of clinical standards and arch helper who pushed by deleterious pursuit cuts, has given been in use as halt senior manager of operations at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

Helen Moss, the senior manager of nursing and governance from Dec 2006, took a comparison precision purpose at East Midlands Strategic Health Authority last year.

John Newsham, who was the monetary senior manager for some-more than a decade, took early early retirement in 2008. Karen Morrey, the arch handling officer, founded her own association after quitting last year.

Dr Val Suarez quiescent as healing senior manager in Mar last year but is still in use at the certitude in her prior purpose as a pathologist.

The GMC pronounced multiform doctors concerned in Mid Staffordshire had been referred to the legislature for review but it would not divulge how many, and hearings have not nonetheless been held.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has non-stop a box record and is questioning at slightest one nurse. It is additionally deliberation either alternative nurses should be investigated.

Andrew Lansley, the shade health cabinet part of said: "It is a liaison that a arch comparison manager can travel afar from these abominable events, with his monetary rewards total and not even give any comment to the exploration undertaken by Robert Francis."

Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, pronounced it was unsuitable for NHS mangers to be obliged for vital failings at one organization and afterwards to get an additional pursuit elsewhere in the service. The certitude certified Mr Yeates left with 6 months notice compensate and his income at the time was around �160,000. But officials pronounced they were perplexing to find if he had perceived any alternative payments on departing.

A orator for the certitude said: "Former arch comparison manager Martin Yeates did not embrace a �400,000 compensate off from the trust.

"He was a part of of the NHS Pension Scheme, that is a last income scheme. He has perceived no grant enhancements from the Trust.

"We will forensically inspect the Robert Francis inform to brand people criticised and take all required stairs to safeguard that the trusts disciplinary procedures are dynamically enforced."