CHI (Commission for Health Improvement) bows out with report on three years of NHS failings
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Severe and sustained staffing shortages and inadequate risk and clinical effectiveness arrangements were among the causes of "serious system failings" in the NHS in England and Wales at operational or clinical speciality level during 2000-03. So says the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) in a report summarising the findings, implications and impact of its 11 investigations during that period.