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Hospital blunders and clinical negligence of the kind exposed in the Stafford Hospital scandal are more widespread than feared, it was claimed yesterday.

Thirty-nine hospitals at 37 NHS trusts across the country are facing a total of 225 claims over poor patient care, the Sunday Mirror has found.

More than 75 per cent of the cases relate to pensioner neglect - but dozens of the alleged victims are children.

Several alleged blunders are reported to have contributed to patient deaths.

The cases are all being handled by Leigh Day, the law firm that brought many of the claims against Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust. Solicitor Emma Jones said: "What's truly shocking is how widespread these cases are, and the fact we're still receiving allegations from across the country.

"When we handled the cases at Stafford Hospital we suspected they weren't isolated incidents but we never imagined they could be so widespread."

Experts say the NHS may have to pay out tens of millions in compensation.

Just months ago 14 hospitals were put under review for poor standards following a probe by NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh. His review was prompted by the Mid-Staffs scandal centred on Stafford Hospital over the needless deaths of up to 1,200 patients.

Now our report suggests the health service crisis may stretch further.

The scandal came to national attention because of an investigation by the Healthcare Commission[when?] into the operation of Stafford Hospital in Stafford, England. The commission was first alerted by the "apparently high mortality rates in patients admitted as emergencies".[2] When the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for running the hospital, failed to provide what the commission considered an adequate explanation, a full-scale investigation was carried out between March and October 2008.[2] Released in March 2009, the commission's report severely criticised the Foundation Trust's management and detailed the appalling conditions and inadequacies at the hospital. Many press reports suggested that because of the substandard care between 400 and 1200 more patients died between 2005 and 2008 than would be expected for the type of hospital,[3][4] though in fact such ‘excess’ death statistics did not appear in the final Healthcare Commission report.[5]

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