Julie Dawn Bailey CBE is a British café owner who was a central figure in the Stafford Hospital scandal.

[1] Bailey helped to form an organization, Cure the NHS, which successfully campaigned for a public inquiry into the failings at the hospital.

[2] She ran a dog grooming parlour and a small cafe, Breaks, on Lichfield Road in the centre of town, which became the headquarters of the campaign.

She and her supporters plastered the walls with photographs of dozens of elderly men and women – husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters – who they claimed had died unnecessarily at the hospital because of lack of care.

[10] Jeremy Hunt credits her for bringing to attention the cultural defects which meant that health provision became cruel and heartless.