Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Julian Lewis Excerpts

Tuesday 26th March 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

We will have a full statutory duty, in line with what Robert Francis says, when it comes to the boards of hospitals. We are carefully considering whether that should apply to individual hospital employees, but we want to wait until we have Don Berwick’s review of zero harm.

[Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East) (Con)]

Does my right hon. Friend accept that the best system in the world will not succeed if individuals who behave inhumanely get away with it and people who observe them behaving inhumanely do not report it? I therefore re-emphasise what my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff North (Jonathan Evans) has just said: if individuals see this inhumane behaviour, they must report it.

[Mr Hunt]

I agree with what my hon. Friend says.