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Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, put into ‘special measures’ 11 hospitals among the 14 with the worst death rates examined in an inquiry by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh. Professor Sir Brian Jarman, a contributor to the report, said: ‘If you don’t have enough trained nurses, as with doctors, you get higher death rates.’ The government announced that the Liverpool Care Pathway (for the dying) would be phased out after a review headed by Lady Neuberger found that the strategy, which can entail withdrawal of food and drink, was being ‘misused’. The government decided not to press ahead with legislation to impose plain packaging for cigarettes. The BBC announced that it had so far spent £4.9 million on three inquiries set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. England won the first Ashes Test by 14 runs. In Australia’s first innings, Ashton Agar, the 11th man, scored 98.
A cap of £26,000 was imposed on the total amount of benefits that non-working people aged 16 to 64 could receive in England, Scotland and Wales.
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