The Francis report states that a collapse of the moral and organisational order in a large part of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust led hundreds to an early death and thousands more to suffering. Francis claims that implementing the recommendations will prevent a repetition. Dream on Who remembers similar inquiries into care failings and abuses at Ely Hospital in Cardiff or Whittingham Hospital in Lancashire in the 1960s? Scores of other care failings have been highlighted over the years. Always solutions were offered. Always the powerful promise 'never again'. Always the promise fails.
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