No prosecutions will be brought in relation to Mid-Staffordshire hospital deaths

Police have revealed that there will be no individual prosecutions in relation to the scandal in which hundreds of patients died.

Despite a three year police review, which concluded that a catalogue of ‘organisational and individual failings’ at Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2009 had contributed to ‘one of the greatest scandals of the NHS’, they could find no evidence to prosecute an individual member of staff.

Deputy Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police, Nicholas Baker, said “Our extensive examination of the available material, peer reviewed by Merseyside Police acting as an independent police force, found no grounds for conducting a criminal investigation against any individual clinician or manager at the Trust.

“That there were no grounds to support individual criminal investigations does not detract from the appalling care that many patients suffered during the period of this review; patients and their families were badly let down by the Trust, and some of its clinicians and their management.”

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Posted by Tony May, Partner/head of Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

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