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www.pressgazette.co.uk 15 February 2013
Mid Staff NHS report
notes press role in
exposing scandal
BY ANDREW PUGH
The reporter who helped expose the
Mid Staffs NHS scandal has welcomed
proposals that authorities pay more heed
to local media's watchdog role.
Former Express & Star reporter Shaun
Lintern spent five years exposing the
abuse and mistreatment suffered by
patients at the hospital, which culminated
in a public inquiry and last week's Francis
Report into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS
Foundation Trust.
Robert Francis QC said the trust had
not “attached great significance to media
reports” on the hospital – even though
this can alert healthcare organisation to
concerns “that are not otherwise known”
and the depth of public feeling.
And he concluded that “it would be
reaso
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