NHS hospital scandal findings to be revealed

The £11m inquiry, which was commissioned in 2010, examined what went wrong at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between January 2005 and March 2009. Inquiry chair Robert Francis QC said the report will be published later this month.

In 2009, a separate highly-critical report by the Healthcare Commission revealed a catalogue of failings at the trust and said “appalling standards” put patients at risk. Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period from 2005 to 2008.

In February 2010, an independent inquiry into events at the trust found it had “routinely neglected patients”.

It recently emerged that the Trust has paid out more than £1m in compensation to 120 victims of abuse or their families.

Solicitor Emma Jones, from law firm Leigh Day and Co, said: “We have been eagerly awaiting this report for over a year.”