NHS 'Cover-Up' Staff Could Be Named

A decision not to name those accused of covering-up failures by an NHS watchdog to properly investigate baby deaths could be reversed.

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 - leaked on Wednesday - found the CQC failed to properly inspect the Morecambe Bay Trust, where up to 16 babies died.

CQC chief executive David Behan said 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".

Joshua Titcombe died in Furness General Hospital after staff failures

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."

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 that their original inspection was flawed.

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

Earlier, his father James had described the report into the cover-up as "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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