Doctors' watchdog places one in four hospitals on danger watch list Almost 80 hospitals have been placed under surveillance by health watchdogs over concerns about patient safety and their ability to train doctors.
The General Medical Council said it had taken the “special measures” as part of efforts to prevent a repeat of the Mid Staffs scandal.
The regulator stepped in after finding alarming levels of bullying, handover systems so poor that desperately ill patients got “lost” and left at risk of serious harm during weekends, unmanageable workloads and bed shortages in intensive care. The Daily Telegraph
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