Monday, 8 March 2010

Corporate Manslaughter and the NHS - why no prosecutions?

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In order to allow the courts to bang up bad businessmen who let trains crash or ran leaky chemical plants, the Labour Government introduced the Corporate Manslaughter Act.

Am I alone in finding it strange that - since the problem we're told is people not systems - there have been no prosecutions under the act at Mid-Staffs NHS Trust? Or does the remit of the Health & Safety Executive not extend to running understaffed, filthy hospitals?

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