Andy Burnham: The Coalition failed to act on my concerns about the NHS What is not so well known is that these warnings appear to have been ignored by this Government. Indeed, there is evidence that standards at all 14 have got much worse under the Coalition. The criteria for inclusion in the Keogh Review was hospitals with a high mortality ratio in 2011 and 2012 - not 2005 which was used as the basis for the weekend's lurid headlines. Six of the 14 now have a higher mortality ratio than in the last year of the last Government. A&E waiting times are the main barometer of any hospital. At all of the hospitals in the Keogh Review, there has been a major deterioration in A&E waiting times on the Coaliton's watch. On the last quarter of 2012/13, all 14 were in breach of the Government's 4-hour A&E target. Many have also made severe cuts to staffing levels - identified by Robert Francis as a primary cause of the poor care at Stafford. This is worrying. It suggests that the NHS is already at risk of forgetting the lessons of Stafford. Basildon was one of the trusts on which I placed a warning before the last Election. The news that this hospital has cut 345 nursing job from its front-line workforce should be greeted with real alarm. Tameside, another trust with deep-seated problems, has cut 128 nursing jobs. Given that I had to order unannounced inspections at this hospital when it had much higher levels of staff, I have real concerns about the quality of what it is able to provide now. This is why Labour will argue tomorrow that an essential part of any response to Keogh must be early implementation of the Francis Report - particularly its call for benchmarks on safe staffing levels. Since February, the Government has been dragging its feet on Francis. This is probably because the 3-year public inquiry didn't produce the report they were looking for. As a result, they have busy re-writing it ever since. The Francis Report was clear: no Ministers in the last Government were found to have ignored warnings or done anything wrong. This point was repeated by the Prime Minister in the Commons on the day the report was published. Now, he has changed his tune. He quotes Baroness Young's evidence to Francis to claim that I covered up problems in the NHS. There is not a shred of evidence to support this claim. In fact, the opposite is the case. It was my personal decision to bring in Robert Francis, overruling official advice to have no further inquiry on Stafford. It was my decision to order an in-depth review of all hospitals in England which led to warnings being put in place before the General Election on five of the 14 in the Keogh Review. The Prime Minister yesterday received a letter from the Baroness politely pointing out that he had been "misled" and stating: "CQC was not pressurised by the previous Government to tone down its regulatory judgments or to hide quality failures." But it's not just on the role of Ministers where Francis has been ignored. His recommendations are heading for the long summer grass. Francis" sensible call for safe staffing is clearly an embarrassment to a Government which has presided over the loss of over 4000 nursing posts. His recommendation of a duty of candour on staff is not easy to introduce for Ministers who continue to resist publication of the NHS Risk Register on the dangers of their re-organisation. This takes us to the heart of David Cameron's problem on the NHS. It was a mistake of monumental proportions for David Cameron to go back on his pledge of no top-down re-organisation and instead throw the NHS into a huge upheaval. The end result of all this is that eyes have been taken off the ball and standards have fallen on his watch. £3 billion has been siphoned out of the NHS front-line to pay for it and this has led to clinical job cuts across these troubled trusts. But, coming out of tomorrow, the public will be looking for solutions rather than a political slanging match. So that's why Labour will force a Commons vote on Wednesday on early implementation of the main recommendations in the Francis Report. People who have been let down by the NHS deserve nothing less.