‘Nearly 3 in 10 Britons’ think the problems highlighted at Stafford Hospital in the recent Francis Inquiry (HEJ – March 2013) are ‘widespread across the NHS’, a recent Ipsos MORI poll (which saw 1,009 adults aged 18+ questioned) showed.
Despite ‘overall satisfaction levels holding up well’, 23% of respondents believed most hospitals in the NHS ‘had problems’ like Mid Staffordshire, while one in 20 thought every hospital suffered them.
