JOHN Woodcock MP received assurance today that the families of those who died at Morecambe Bay Hospitals would remain involved in implementing recommendations to prevent further unnecessary deaths at local hospitals.

The Government has announced that it will be accepting all of the recommendations made in the Kirkup report which came after a distressing chain of events that began with serious failures of clinical care in the maternity unit at Furness General Hospital, part of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust.

Mr Woodcock welcomed the Government's acceptance of the recommendations but urged the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to work with Morecambe Bay families and to ensure that they were included as much as possible as the recommendations were implemented.

The Labour MP said he would continue to work with families affected to push for progress at local hospitals and right across the health service, and that today's announcement was 'another great step in the long quest by families to ensure he needless death and suffering of their loved ones leads to a change of culture in the NHS'.