Up to 10,000 people a year killed by poor NHS care

Posted By: James

Wednesday 17th September 2014

David Prior, the chair of the CQC, has warned that poor care is killing up to 10,000 patients a year. In an article for the Guardian, Mr Prior claimed: "Any assessment of the NHS can only have one possible conclusion: standards of care are highly variable, sometimes dangerously so.” However, Dr Mark Porter, chair of the BMA, dismissed Mr Prior’s claims as “ideologically driven” and said his suggestion that introducing a market system into the NHS would force it to improve standards was not backed up by evidence.

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