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Julie Bailey: "We should have a safe system in our hospitals"
Fundamental changes to the way NHS staff are trained are expected to be recommended by an inquiry into hundreds of deaths at Stafford Hospital.
The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times say it will call for poor managers to be replaced and better staff training.
The inquiry probed a period between 2005 and 2008, when poor care at the hospital is estimated to have caused 1,200 avoidable deaths.
The Department of Health said reports of the findings are speculation.
The inquiry, established by the coalition in 2010 and chaired by Robert Francis QC, sat for 139 days, cost £10m and considered about a million pages of evidence.
The public investigation was prompted by a 2009 Healthcare Commission report, which listed a catalogue of failings including receptionists assessing patients arriving at A&E, a shortage of nurses and senior doctors and pressure on staff to meet targets.
The subsequent probe heard evidence of patients dying after falling when they were left unattended and others being denied food and drink.
The inquiry's findings are due to be published later this month.
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According to the Sunday Telegraph, the results of the public inquiry will deliver a damning verdict on the entire NHS.
It says Mr Francis will describe a "culture of fear" in which pressure was piled on staff to put the demands of managers before the needs of patients.
He will demand radical changes "to the supervision and regulation of health care" the paper said, in response to a "tide of public anger" about the scandal.
The newspaper claims the report will call for greater regulation of NHS management after "systemic" failings, and an overhaul of training for nurses and health assistants.
It also claims about 41 doctors and 29 nurses working at the hospital have escaped serious punishment, despite complaints being lodged with their professional bodies.
The Sunday Times says the report, which Mr Francis will hand to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt this month, will recommend a statutory "duty of candour" which would oblige hospitals to inform patients or their relatives when treatment has gone wrong.
Personal stories: Deb Hazeldine
Deb Hazeldine told the BBC about the death of her mother at Stafford Hospital.
Her mum Ellen was admitted to the hospital in July 2006 after a fall at home. She was in remission from bone cancer.
During her stay, she contracted a hospital superbug which led to her death in December 2006.
"The things I saw on the wards will probably haunt me forever.
"My mum was left without food, fluids... she was unable to get to the toilet," she said.
Furthermore, there was a mix-up at the hospital mortuary in which the undertakers were handed forms saying that Ellen's body was highly infectious, so people should not be allowed to see her.
In the end, Deb did see her - but only for a few minutes when she was in a body bag.
It says the inquiry will recommend that hospitals which cover up mistakes by doctors and nurses should be fined and even closed down in some cases.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Hunt said the events at Stafford represented "the most shocking betrayal of NHS founding values in its history".
'Change of culture'"We need proper accountability from those running NHS institutions. It is tough and often thankless being an NHS manager; despite which most do an excellent job.
"Most of all we need a change of culture. Patients must never be treated as numbers but as human beings, indeed human beings at their frailest and most vulnerable."
He pledged to introduce a system of patient feedback - which would be published - whereby every hospital in-patient will be asked whether they would recommend the care they received to family or friends.
He wrote that greater "openness and transparency when things go wrong" is required and said the Department of Health would "listen carefully" to inquiry findings.
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust looks after Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals.
Last month, a panel appointed by the regulator Monitor said the trust was "unsustainable" in its present form.
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