Mel's message: The francis report: My priorities

摘要

At last we have the Francis Report, the reaction to events at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, chaired by Sir Robert Francis QC. Published on 6 February it has been long awaited-too long some might say-given the horrendous events that led to it. While I appreciate many of you may not have read through 1700 pages, I hope you are at least familiar with it. I also hope the harrowing stories of failures in patient care stick in your mind, whether it is because you have read them in the report or heard relatives in the press, still understandably upset several years after the events.