British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday that he “would like to apologize to the families of all those who suffered from the way the system allowed this horrific abuse to go unchecked and unchallenged for so long” at the Stafford Hospital managed by the National Health Service.
Cameron vowed to actively overhaul the way the National Health Service is managed and to introduce a new chief inspector of hospitals post in the wake of the latest scandal.
A public inquiry that unearthed the recent findings said in a report that the hospital’s managers focused on meeting government targets and cutting costs which resulted in neglect of patient care. The inquiry said the hospital’s action was a violation of medical ethics.
