Three failed to meet legal standards for giving patients enough food and drink and treating them in a dignified way. There were serious concerns in another three. That makes six out of the twelve. The details are here and here.
It is inconceivable that a competent management would not have known about them. They all burble on about being disappointed and taking the findings seriously. But they haven't been doing their jobs, so why should we think they will when the spotlight moves on? People should be fired but they won't be.
Lansley burbles that
Where the inspections uncovered appalling levels of care, the CQC will be able to use its enforcement powers to ensure that real improvements are made.This is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes.
NHS units are unaccountable to the people they are supposed to serve. The NHS is too big to be managed centrally, and there are no effective sanctions when staff don't do their jobs, and kill people.
It has to be broken into smaller units where staff know their jobs are at risk when they don't do them properly. But it won't be, because Cameron and Lansley think they can manage it when no one else has been able to, and Clegg is just fluffy.
So taxpaying patients will still be mistreated.
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Unmaneagable with Cameron at the helm. Cameron plays the "management-bashing card" because his focus groups say managers are bad - on television's "Casualty" at least. No-one suggest M&S would be better managed without any managers, but hey ho, its only a £100bn industry. Of course nurses know best.
He has no clue how to run the NHS because he is like a man driving a car, looking ahead in the rear view mirror, but only to admire his own reflection. Car-crash ahead.
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