Sentence examples for basic failings from inspiring English sources

"Such basic failings should not have occurred and, sadly, these failures could have been easily prevented".

Alehashem said that as well as basic failings that vary from county to county, the length of pre-trial detention is a fundamental problem.

These were basic failings that raised questions marks over the whole way the trusts were being run.

In 2011 one in five hospitals inspected by the Care Quality Commission also exhibited ' basic failings' on dignity and nutrition [ 13].

However, cases such as the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust scandal, where routine and basic failings in care resulted in up to 1,200 patients deaths between 2005 and 2008, show the catastrophic implications for patient care when neglect becomes systemic across an organisation [ 21, 24].

The parabolic shape of a primary mirror has a basic failing in that it produces a narrow field of view.

The general cited one basic failing when he promised to "remove inter-provincial disharmony" and devolve power "to the grassroots level".

If there was one basic failing of the Scottish campaign that came to an end in Spain, it was an inability to covert key chances, particularly away from Hampden.

They believe that this is a sign of a basic failing in connectionist models.

Five hospital trusts with persistently high death rates are facing investigation tonight after a damning report into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust raised fears that basic clinical failings could be putting patients at risk across the NHS.

Its new chief executive, hired last autumn from Asda, publicly savaged what he'd found: mostly for basic retail failings, but Boots too has to face not only cheap and cheerful Superdrug but the supermarkets, head-on.