Mid Staffordshire Hospital scandal was the biggest in the history of the NHS. To ensure that the incident does not repeat, a new law has been passed.

As per which, doctors, nurses and NHS managers will be sentenced to five-year imprisonment if they are found mistreating or neglecting patients willfully.

The announcement of the new law will be made by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A series of reviews have been evaluated into patient safety and it is then that this decision has been taken.

This is not the only measure that will be taken to improve the level of care provided at the NHS. It has been seen that Mr. Hunt has been quite critical about the NHS and it is expected that a number of measures will be taken out by him.

Main aim is to improve standard of care for which there are probable chances that he will take steps to improve transparency and speed up the complaints processes.

Coming up with such kind of law was the brainchild of Professor Don Berwick, who is a former adviser to Barack Obama.

David Cameron has affirmed, "Never again will we allow sub-standard care, cruelty or neglect to go unnoticed and unpunished".