Ursula Lidbetter, the Co-op's chair, agreed that senior management had "fallen far short" of acceptable standards and said the group must introduce fundamental reforms "with urgency".
The hospital – although newly updated – was worse than basic, and there have been a number of cases where healthcare fell far short of acceptable standards.
As Stephen Dorrell, chair of the Commons health select committee, put it last month, its "primary focus should be to ensure that the public has confidence that its inspections provide an assurance of acceptable standards in care and patient safety.
In a statement, Botswana's observer delegation said that the election fell short of acceptable standards and that the regional trade group "should not create the undesirable precedent of permitting exceptions to its own rules".
Our latest report on the Care Quality Commission CQCC) – the second we've published – concludes that even five years after it was established, the CQC still needs to define its core purpose and earn the public's confidence that its inspections provide an assurance of acceptable standards in care and patient safety.
A mental health charity said it was disappointed frontline services still fell far short of acceptable standards.
"The club believes that the BBC has on a number of occasions now demonstrated a pre-determined negative attitude towards Rangers and its fans and its journalism has fallen well short of acceptable standards.
Committee chairman Stephen Dorrell said: "The CQC's primary focus should be to ensure that the public has confidence that its inspections provide an assurance of acceptable standards in care and patient safety.
In response to the MP's report, Conservative Stephen Dorrell, chair of the committee, said: "The CQC's primary focus should be to ensure that the public has confidence that its inspections provide an assurance of acceptable standards in care and patient safety.
