Health Secretary Wes Streeting has described the report into Valdo Calocane's treatment as "deeply distressing", and admitted Grace O'Malley Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates may still be alive if it wasn't for the NHS' failures. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00What the Care Quality Commission have uncovered is deeply distressing, most of
00:05all for the families of Grace, Barnaby and Ian, who in addition to having to
00:11deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through,
00:15are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should
00:19have been prevented. That there wasn't a single point of failure, but multiple and
00:23fundamental failures on the part of the NHS to manage Valdo Callichane's
00:28treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept
00:33others safe. The hard truth here, which is I think hard for the whole country to
00:38hear, let alone me, is that had the NHS done its job, had there not been multiple
00:44fundamental failures, three innocent people might still be alive. And what the
00:50families of Grace and Barnaby and Ian are going through is grief in that
00:56knowledge, and that's why I totally understand why they've accused the NHS
01:01of having blood on its hands. I think it's a hard criticism to hear, but one
01:05the NHS has to take on the chin.