” … A new criminal offence to stop NHS hospitals “fiddling” official figures is to be introduced by ministers in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire scandal… … Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, is to announce that senior NHS managers and hospital trusts will be held criminally liable if they manipulate figures on waiting times or death rates … ”
Read New criminal offence to stop NHS hospitals ‘fiddling’ figures to be introduced by Robert Winnett, Political Editor, The Telegraph, 15 Mar 2013.