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The Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal was partly the fault of the main nursing union, Jeremy Hunt claimed yesterday.
The Health Secretary launched his scathing attack on the Royal College of Nursing after it criticised his plans to improve compassion in the NHS.
Mr Hunt said the RCN, which attacked a move to make all student nurses spend a year doing menial tasks, had been criticised for being more concerned about their members than patients.
He told the RCN to be ?very careful? and pointed out that a damning report into Mid Staffs ? where up to 1,200 patients died from neglect ? said the union had failed to listen to nurses? warnings of unnecessary suffering.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...union-Mid-Staffordshire-hospital-scandal.html
The Health Secretary launched his scathing attack on the Royal College of Nursing after it criticised his plans to improve compassion in the NHS.
Mr Hunt said the RCN, which attacked a move to make all student nurses spend a year doing menial tasks, had been criticised for being more concerned about their members than patients.
He told the RCN to be ?very careful? and pointed out that a damning report into Mid Staffs ? where up to 1,200 patients died from neglect ? said the union had failed to listen to nurses? warnings of unnecessary suffering.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...union-Mid-Staffordshire-hospital-scandal.html