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More patients should be treated in the community rather than in "dangerous" hospitals, according to the NHS Alliance.
The organisation, which represents doctors, nurses and managers on the front line, said there was an "immediate imperative" to shift non-urgent care away from hospitals.
The call came in a letter to the Times newspaper.
It follows concerns in the wake of the scandal at Stafford Hospital.
In the letter, the president of the NHS Alliance, Dr Chris Drinkwater, and its chairman, Dr Michael Dixon, wrote: "Hospitals can be dangerous places.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21767864
The organisation, which represents doctors, nurses and managers on the front line, said there was an "immediate imperative" to shift non-urgent care away from hospitals.
The call came in a letter to the Times newspaper.
It follows concerns in the wake of the scandal at Stafford Hospital.
In the letter, the president of the NHS Alliance, Dr Chris Drinkwater, and its chairman, Dr Michael Dixon, wrote: "Hospitals can be dangerous places.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21767864