Box 2.

The Francis Report 2013.

Robert Francis QC investigated failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. His report was published in February 2013. Among over 200 recommendations, he included a desire to see a single regulator for financial and quality healthcare, more powers to suspect/prosecute individuals and Boards, a desire to see all staff bound by a duty of candour, the registration of all healthcare workers, specialist healthcare inspectors, the reinstatement of the practice of identifying a senior clinician responsible for a patient’s care and general practitioners to be more actively monitoring the care patients receiving care in hospitals or other specialist services.