Dr Julian Lewis: When senior managers and administrators are found to be directly involved in gross negligence and deliberate cover-ups, will they lose their jobs or will they be allowed to continue?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Maria Caulfield): A statutory duty of candour is in place. As I said, if a mistake happens – mistakes can always happen, even with the best prevention methods in the world – there is a statutory duty to reveal it to the family and the patient involved, and to have a full investigation and learn lessons from it. I am concerned that that may not have happened in this [North East Ambulance Service] case.]