(Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Brussels, Thorsten Severin and Michael Nienaber in Berlin, Nick Tattersall and Seda Sezer in Istanbul; writing by Paul Taylor; editing by Peter Graff and Giles Elgood)

Meanwhile, Medway NHS Foundation Trust in Kent is to remain in the failure regime with regulators considering what "urgent action" needs to be taken to ensure quality of care improves as quickly as possible, the spokesman added.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are to remain in the regime for a further six months, despite showing improvements, he added.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk noted that former Queensland Liberal leader and housing minister Bruce Flegg is yet to be re-endorsed, suggesting the seat might be being held open for Premier Campbell Newman.

"The special measures process has brought improvements in the quality of care in most cases, which would have been unlikely without the regime," Sir Mike said.
"Although there have been improvements, it is important to emphasise that further improvements need to be made, especially in relation to safety and responsiveness.
"Our new inspection model has helped us get under the skin of hospitals. The special measures process is doing what it set out to do, and I am confident that it will lead to further improvements."

Now the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) chief inspector of hospitals, Sir Mike, has said that since the trusts were put into the failure regime, ten of the 11 have shown improvements.
Two trusts put into the regime, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, have been taken out of special measures and have received an overall rating of "good" from inspectors, a CQC spokesman said. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust were rated as "requires improvement" and have been taken out of special measures but with additional support.

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was at the centre of a major public inquiry after it was found that poor care could have led to the deaths of hundreds of patients as a result of maltreatment and neglect.
A year ago, following a review into 14 other hospital trusts with higher than expected death rates, 11 trusts were put into special measures for a catalogue of failings and fundamental breaches of care.

While hospitals put into special measures have shown "significant improvements" more must be done to address these issues, Professor Sir Mike Richards added.
Putting hospital trusts in special measures was a move introduced as part of the Government's response to the Stafford Hospital scandal.

Ms Pink, who has been a criminal defence lawyer with Robertson O'Gorman Solicitors since 2006, has been preselected by Labor, three months after it endorsed high-profile lawyer Peter Russo to run in another Brisbane seat.
Labor is making political capital out of Mr Newman's February comments that bikie lawyers are "hired guns" who are part of the "criminal gang machine".
"I was horrified at the casual way in which this government introduced such harsh laws which will cause systemic injustice in Queensland," Ms Pink said.

"In fact, they are in a holding pattern ... in case Campbell Newman decides to abandon the seat of ... Ashgrove and seek nomination here in the seat of Moggill," she told reporters.
The LNP's heavy defeat at the recent by-election in Stafford, which neighbours the premier's seat, has had political commentators saying Mr Newman will lose his seat. Mr Newman has repeatedly ruled out trying to run in a safer seat.

Queensland's Labor opposition has preselected another criminal lawyer to run as a candidate at the next state election.
Louisa Pink, a solicitor at prominent civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman's law firm, will run in the very safe Liberal National Party seat of Moggill, in Brisbane's west.

The Liberal National Party (LNP) preselected Ms Lindgren on Saturday to replace retiring Senator Brett Mason.
"The Labor Government also respects the conventions of our Westminster system and therefore, we will not be opposing the nomination of Ms Lindgren to fill the casual Senate vacancy," Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said after Ms Lindgren was named the sole nominee in parliament on Thursday.

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