University Hospital of North Durham (Image: Craig Connor/ChronicleLive)

County Durham hospital bosses have apologised over a range of shocking governance failures which saw "systemic" failings in breast cancer services. New bosses at the County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust said that, following another shocking independent report, they would seek to rebuild governance "from the ground up".

New chief executive Steve Russell and interim chair of the board Alison Marshall apologised to patients after sharing a "deeply upsetting" report the trust commissioned from independent governance expert Mary Aubrey. This report, published this week found "early warnings" from as early as 2012 were missed and there was "a complete absence of governance accountability" when it came to some out

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