In April of this year, the BBC revealed that the Care Quality Commission had recommended placing Kettering General Hospital in special measures due to a number of services provided by the hospital – including maternity, surgery and outpatients – being found to be inadequate or requiring improvement.
Now further revelations suggest that waiting times at the hospital have been manipulated in order to avoid missing government targets.
Whistleblower, David Phelan, a hospital trust governor, has claimed that patients who have had to wait more than a year for procedures have been deliberately excluded from waiting times figures. According to an investigation undertaken by the BBC, the actual number of patients waiting more than a year might be in the thousands.
Investigations have further discovered that over 100 patients have suffered harm due to the extended delay in undergoing necessary procedures, including one patient who has suffered significant loss of sight.
According to The Times, police are currently considering whether to begin a formal investigation into the allegations.
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