article_snippet: Despite multiple warnings about failings between 2001 and 2012, the Care Quality Commission gave Furness General Hospital a clean bill of health in 2010.
article_snippet: Mr Titcombe said there was no reason why culpable nurse and doctors could not have been held to account before a damning report was published.
article_snippet: The independent inquiry into the trust, expected to be published next month, was finally ordered by ministers due to mounting concerns over the deaths of at least eight mothers and babies.
article_snippet: The CQC, however, failed to read a damning report and passed the hospital as ‘safe’ a year later.
article_snippet: When a The CQC official produced a dossier showing the inspection was flawed, bosses told a CQC official to destroy the inspection to protect the commission’s reputation.
article_snippet: The CQC and the parliamentary and health service ombudsman are also thought to be in line for criticism in Dr Bill Kirkup’s report.
article_snippet: line for criticism in Dr Bill Kirkup’s report will raise more questions about how medical staff and those tasked with inspecting the quality of care provided are held to account.
article_snippet: the report’s publication.
article_snippet: Jill Finney, former deputy chief executive of the CQC, was awarded £60,000 for distress after she was accused covering up a CQC report.
article_snippet: she always denied the allegation.
highlights_snippet: Baby should have been treated with antibiotics at hospital in Cumbria .
  