Edited sentence: "Stafford, along with Ms Bailey and her mother Bella, have become bywords for ‘all that is wrong with the NHS’, ruthlessly exploited by politicians – primarily Conservatives – to undermine public confidence in, and affection for, the NHS.According to Julie, her mother died in agony and terror, ignored by nurses while all around them patients suffered, and even fell out of bed and were left on the floor until they sank into silence.Stories of patients drinking from vases have been repeated as fact until almost no one dares doubt them, and nurses have been abused in the street just because they worked at Stafford hospital"