Putting heart patients' lives at risk

As we now know, back in 2008 staff at University Hospital of North Staffordshire turned down the volume of a heart monitoring alarm, leading to the death of David Bough.

As Mr Bough’s relatives sobbed in the gallery, the coroner ruled that he died of natural causes ‘exacerbated by an act of omission causing alerts from the heart monitoring to not be seen or heard’.

JuliaM discusses the staff's attitudes and asks, "Why not call it what it was – criminal negligence?"

But the admirably detailed account on This Is Staffordshire makes it look worse.

No one will be brought to account. The NHS fortress looks impregnable again.