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Tuesday, February 05, 2013
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RELATIVES of patients who died at a scandal-hit Stafford Hospital have met with Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the publication of a report into standards of care.

The families used yesterday's private meeting at 10 Downing Street to seek assurances that the Government will implement the recommendations of the £11 million inquiry into failings at the hospital by barrister Robert Francis.

  1. QUESTIONS: Prime Minister David Cameron .

    QUESTIONS: Prime Minister David Cameron .

Mr Francis is expected to recommend wide-ranging reforms of the NHS in his report, due to be published tomorrow.

Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period from 2005 to 2008.

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The inquiry, announced by then health secretary Andrew Lansley in June 2010, was set up to examine the commissioning, supervisory and regulatory organisations in relation to their monitoring role at Mid Staffordshire NHSFoundation Trust.

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