article_snippet: A damning report into one of the NHS’s worst scandals is today expected to reveal up to ten missed opportunities to intervene to prevent poor care.
article_snippet: New inquiry will be highly critical of how, despite a string of baby deaths, watchdogs gave an NHS trust the all clear only one month before the last general election.
article_snippet: Today’s report is expected to conclude that between 2004 and 2011 there were a series of missed chances to step in at every level, from Furness General Hospital to the Department of Health.
article_snippet: Investigators are thought to have examined around 50 cases where poor maternity care has been alleged.
article_snippet: The findings will again put Labour in the dock over Labour stewardship of the health service, revealing appalling care over years under the last government.
article_snippet: The official report into care at the unit, run by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, will paint a damning picture of what went wrong, with echoes of the Mid Staffs hospital scandal, according to Whitehall sources.
article_snippet: Medical charts subsequently went missing and the coroner raised suspicions that Medical charts may have been deliberately destroyed.
article_snippet: Health officials tried to cover up Health officials failure to investigate poor patient care, their failure to investigate poor patient care is claimed.
article_snippet: I have… raised with you on many occasions, the evidence from people who were working in the system at the time that there was a culture of “no bad news”.
article_snippet: I am sure that your investigation must have uncovered issues relating to some of the external, system and national policy issues that impacted on the way people were behaving at the time.
article_snippet: When Labour said Labour were weaponising the NHS for the election, the NHS made me want to vomit.
highlights_snippet: New inquiry will conclude that neglect contributed to even more deaths .