A hospital trust being investigated for forcing staff to change cancer waiting times information has been put in special measures.
Staff at Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust told inspectors they were "pressured or bullied" to change information and make it appear as thought patients were being treated in line with national guidelines.
The Care Quality Commission found that as a result of the doctoring of the data, some patients may not have had the treatment they needed in time and a number of cancer patients suffered "undue delays".
Following an investigation, the health sector regulator, Monitor, has now put the trust in special measures "to ensure all its patients receive good quality care". It found the trust had breached its licence to provide health services.
Under special measures, the trust - which is at the centre of a police investigation - will be required to "put right the patient quality, safety and governance concerns highlighted by the CQC", Monitor said.
Mackenzie Cackett, who had a brain tumour, died at Colchester Hospital Adam Cayley, regional director for Monitor said: "Following the urgent actions already taken to safeguard patients at the trust we have stepped in formally to assure the health and wellbeing of patients using the cancer pathway at Colchester.
"The trust has been given an explicit set of actions to improve the service it offers patients. We will be monitoring progress closely and we will not hesitate to take further regulatory action if required.
"The leadership of the trust will be reviewed as part of our scrutiny of the trust's governance arrangements and, if necessary, further regulatory action will be taken."
After news of the scandal broke, one mother demanded "justice" for her son who died at a hospital.
Danielle Uren believes four-year-old Mackenzie Cackett, who suffered a brain tumour, could have still been alive had it not been for mistakes in his diagnosis and treatment at Colchester General Hospital, Essex.
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