Sentence examples for appalling standard from inspiring English sources

On April 16th Margaret Hayward, a nurse, was struck off the register of recognised nurses by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after she smuggled a camera into a Brighton hospital to expose on television the appalling standard of patient care on one of the wards.

But there are still many small, illegal mines with appalling standards.

However, we must not forget that such appalling standards arerelatively rare within the health service.

The effort represents a strategic break from the familiar pattern of advocates' naming and shaming governments for appalling standards of care for their societies' most vulnerable citizens.

"The resulting report is a shocking story. . . of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients," said Kennedy.

A separate, highly critical report by the Healthcare Commission in 2009 revealed a catalogue of failings at the trust and said "appalling standards" had put patients at risk.

A public inquiry will begin today into failings at an NHS hospital criticised for routinely neglecting patients and providing appalling standards of care.

Appalling standards put patients at risk and between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected from 2005 to 2008.

HCC chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said its report was "a shocking story … of appalling standards and chaotic systems for looking after patients.

The landmark report will, over many hundreds of pages, detail what he then also called "the actions and inactions of the various organisations to search for an explanation of whay the appalling standards of care were not picked up".

Appalling standards of care put many patients at risk, and between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period from 2005 to 2008, the commission found.