50 years of NHS inquiries: Why they matter and what we can learn from them

50 years of NHS inquiries: Why they matter and what we can learn from them It is fifty years since what most people think of as the first NHS inquiry – into failures in care at Ely Hospital in Cardiff. The inquiry was set up in 1967 to investigate allegations of ill-treatment, the abuse of patients and theft by staff at the long-stay psychiatric hospital. The Health Foundation