Bereaved Family Urges Streeting to “Hold NHS Trust Managers to Account” – Guido Fawkes

Bereaved Family Urges Streeting to “Hold NHS Trust Managers to Account”

The parents of Alice Figueiredo, the woman who took her own life in 2015 aged 22, have delivered a heartbreaking statement after the the NHS Trust which was looking after her (North East London Foundation NHS Trust) and a ward manager were found guilty of health and safety failings. Alice’s stepfather said:

“We have seen numerous inquests into deaths at trusts like now over decades after which the NHS trusts promise but failed to deliver safe patient care, the errors often the same ones repeated over and over again needless debts continue relentlessly to this day the claims of lessons learned are just well, worn empty rhetoric meaningless and hollow with government health care commissioners and regulators just failing to hold these trusts to account. Mr streeting if you’re listening today you need to hold these trust managers to account.”

Streeting will be trying to force the NHS to pay close attention to this tragic case…