ENGLAND’S largest hospital trust was put under special measures yesterday, with campaigners laying the blame squarely at privateers’ feet.

The Care Quality Commission revealed a catalogue of failures including overcrowding, staff shortages and a culture of bullying at east London’s Whipps Cross University Hospital, which — with five others — is run by Barts Health NHS Trust.

The hospital had failed to reorganise after two healthcare assistants were jailed in 2013 for abusing old ladies at the hospital, the commission — which slapped three formal warnings on Whipps Cross at the time — said.