Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Alan Johnson Excerpts

Tuesday 19th November 2013 Commons Chamber

[Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) (Lab)]

We need total candour with regard to avoidable deaths. The only way to determine that is through an independent review of medical case notes by neutral clinicians. That exercise took place at Stafford. Will the Secretary of State remind us of the result?

[Mr Hunt]

I do not have the results in front of me, but I am happy to supply them. I want to take up the right hon. Gentleman’s point about avoidable deaths, because one of the changes we want to make today is to avoid the temptation, when there is an avoidable death, for people on the front line to say that it was unavoidable. We are trying to create the structures that make it easy for people to speak out if they think that a death was avoidable and to ensure that they are encouraged to do so.