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      <title>Stafford Hospital inquiry ends</title>  
      <description>The Stafford Hospital inquiry comes to an end after 139 days and one million pages of evidence.</description>  
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      <title>Stafford hospital failings: is the NHS any safer now?</title>  
      <description>As the Public Inquiry into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust ends, some are asking whether the same thing could happen again elsewhere.</description>  
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      <title>Patient safety raised at inquiry</title>  
      <description>Patient groups give their closing statements at a public inquiry into failings at Stafford hospital.</description>  
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      <title>Final witness's tears at bullying</title>  
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      <title>Stafford Hospital lawyers cleared</title>  
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      <title>Hospital report branded 'shaky'</title>  
      <description>The former boss of Stafford Hospital trust criticises a report which condemned "appalling standards" on the wards.</description>  
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      <title>Hospital bosses outline changes</title>  
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      <title>Failings had 'big effect' on NHS</title>  
      <description>The head of the NHS says many lessons have been learned from the failings at Stafford Hospital which had a "profound effect" on the system.</description>  
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      <title>Hospital 'did not cause concern'</title>  
      <description>The head of the NHS tells an inquiry that Stafford Hospital, which was found to have provided "appalling care", gave no cause for concern at the time.</description>  
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      <title>Call to back NHS whistle-blowing</title>  
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      <title>Hospital inquiry MP 'astounded'</title>  
      <description>Labour's former health minister Ben Bradshaw tells a public inquiry of his surprise at the lack of complaints about Stafford Hospital prior to 2007.</description>  
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      <title>Stafford Hospital chairman quits</title>  
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      <title>Ex-minister at hospital inquiry</title>  
      <description>The former Health Secretary Andy Burnham gives evidence at the Stafford Hospital public inquiry.</description>  
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      <title>Hospital's public inquiry resumes</title>  
      <description>A public inquiry looking at failings at Stafford Hospital is resuming after a summer break.</description>  
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      <title>Concerns over 'minimum standards'</title>  
      <description>Stafford Hospital is still not meeting four of the essential standards set out by the country's main health regulator.</description>  
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      <title>NHS trust in compensation pay out</title>  
      <description>Seventeen more families are awarded compensation over treatment patients received at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.</description>  
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      <title>No 'cover-up' charges after death</title>  
      <description>No-one will be prosecuted over an attempted cover-up following the death of a Stafford Hospital patient, the Crown Prosecution Service says.</description>  
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      <title>NHS watchdog 'not satisfactory'</title>  
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      <title>New inquiry hospital boss starts</title>  
      <description>The new chief executive of Stafford Hospital takes over from her predecessor who was brought in as a troubleshooter.</description>  
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      <title>Johnson wanted death figures out</title>  
      <description>Former health secretary Alan Johnson insisted on removing an estimate for the number of avoidable deaths at Stafford Hospital, it is revealed.</description>  
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      <title>NHS reform: a view from Stafford</title>  
      <description>As the Government pause their NHS reforms, the Stafford Hospital Inquiry hears from the health regulator.</description>  
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      <title>Stafford inquiry to be adjourned</title>  
      <description>The inquiry into Stafford Hospital is to be adjourned for medical reasons, it is announced.</description>  
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      <title>Deaths figure removed from report</title>  
      <description>The former Healthcare Commission chairman tells an inquiry he removed figures from a report which showed up to 1,200 deaths at Stafford Hospital.</description>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 21:18:50 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>'No Stafford Hospital cover up'</title>  
      <description>The incoming chief executive of a troubled hospital trust says there will be no covering up of past mistakes and changes will be made.</description>  
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      <title>Hospital boss tells of 'sorrow'</title>  
      <description>The Stafford Hospital inquiry hears from the former chief executive of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority who apologises for not spotting problems.</description>  
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      <title>Health boss 'sorry' after visit</title>  
      <description>The Stafford Hospital inquiry hears from a senior health director who says he saw nothing to concern him when he visited the hospital in 2008.</description>  
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      <title>Staff problems 'not made clear'</title>  
      <description>Former nursing director says she did not make problems over nursing staff clear enough to the board.</description>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:34:59 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Hospital errors 'may be repeated'</title>  
      <description>A public inquiry, called after a higher than expected number of deaths at Stafford Hospital in 2005 to 2008, is told a similar situation could reoccur.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-12765147#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:04:42 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Hospital trust had 'budget issue'</title>  
      <description>Mid Staffordshire Hospital Trust had financial issues in 2007, a regulator tells a public inquiry into failings at one of its hospitals.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-12737660#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:05:27 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>NHS boss 'to restore confidence'</title>  
      <description>The new chief executive of Stafford Hospital gives herself two years to improve public confidence.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-12692157#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:43:34 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Hospital inquiry told of bullying</title>  
      <description>A culture of bullying and harassment existed in Stafford Hospital's A&amp;E department, a doctor tells a public inquiry into failings there.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-12628843#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:07:59 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Stafford consultant 'was ignored'</title>  
      <description>A former consultant at Stafford Hospital tells an inquiry that his concerns about low staffing levels were ignored.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-12488859#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:20:40 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Families 'let down' by hospital</title>  
      <description>A doctor tells the Stafford Hospital inquiry that patients and families felt let down by the complaints procedure.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-12460347#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:07:58 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>'No one listened' NHS probe told</title>  
      <description>A bereavement officer tells an inquiry into the high number of deaths at a hospital that she had concerns but no one listened to her.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-12426473#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:40:05 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Hospital watchdog feels 'duped'</title>  
      <description>A councillor scrutinising Stafford Hospital during a time unexpected deaths occurred there feels she was "duped" by management.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-12399056#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:47:04 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Inquiry hospital told to improve</title>  
      <description>Stafford Hospital is told it must make more progress in three areas of patient care, by inspectors visiting after the deaths of baby twins.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-12180505#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:14:47 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>'Tougher' scrutiny of NHS deaths</title>  
      <description>All deaths in hospital and within a month of discharge are to be monitored under a new system in England.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11693784#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:13:44 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>NHS changes 'will help Stafford'</title>  
      <description>The health secretary claims NHS changes planned by the coalition government will help conditions at Stafford Hospital.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-12328862#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:44:45 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Stafford Hospital 'still a worry'</title>  
      <description>A campaigner whose mother died at Stafford Hospital tells a public inquiry she still has "huge concerns" about patient care.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-11823564#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:48:38 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Frustration at hospital inquiry</title>  
      <description>Relatives of patients believed to have died "needlessly" at Stafford Hospital attend the first day of a public inquiry.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-11711097#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:01:12 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Inquiry to probe 'terrible' care</title>  
      <description>An inquiry into avoidable deaths at Stafford Hospital will look at why the health care system tolerated a "terrible standard of service".</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11696735#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:57:26 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>Stories from Stafford Hospital</title>  
      <description>BBC Radio Stoke's Stafford reporter Chris King speaks to some of the people affected by the failings at Stafford Hospital.</description>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:22:53 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>AUDIO: Stafford 'We will never let this happen again'</title>  
      <description>Health correspondent Jane Hughes reports on the public inquiry into revelations of poor care at Stafford Hospital.</description>  
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:29:07 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Hospital 'did not cause concern'</title>  
      <description>The head of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, tells a public inquiry that Stafford Hospital gave no cause for concern at the time.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-15088519#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:59:17 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Donaldson issued safety message</title>  
      <description>Sir Liam Donaldson, the country's Chief Medical Officer for 12 years, gives evidence at the public inquiry into the failings of Stafford Hospital.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-15038324#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:14:29 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Bradshaw 'sorry' about hospital</title>  
      <description>Former Health Minister, Ben Bradshaw, has attended the public inquiry into the failings of Stafford Hospital.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14872537#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:35 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Andy Burnham at Stafford inquiry</title>  
      <description>Former health secretary Andy Burnham gives evidence at a public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14854744#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:12:16 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Inquiry starts after summer break</title>  
      <description>The public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital starts again after a summer break.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14872539#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:01:26 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Deaths figure removed from report</title>  
      <description>A former chairman of a health watchdog explains his decision to remove the number of excess deaths from a report into Stafford Hospital.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-13298637#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 09:20:45 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>AUDIO: Hospital boss wants better morale</title>  
      <description>The new chief executive of Stafford Hospital, Lyn Hill-Tout, says she wants to motivate staff and improve morale.</description>  
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-13169170#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:49:59 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>AUDIO: AUDIO: Julie Bailey on BBC Stoke</title>  
      <description>Cure The NHS founder Julie Bailey talks about the three years of campaigning which finally led to a public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital.</description>  
      <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9443000/9443359.stm#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:58:53 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>VIDEO: Video: Antony Sumara at inquiry</title>  
      <description>The present chief executive of the mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust says the scandal that happened at Stafford Hospital could reoccur.</description>  
      <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9428000/9428630.stm#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</link>  
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:52:03 GMT</pubDate>  
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      <title>AUDIO: Audio: Lyn Hill-Tout on BBC Stoke</title>  
      <description>A new chief executive has been appointed at Stafford Hospital. She spoke to the BBC's Pete Morgan.</description>  
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