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Sir David Nicholson, the outgoing head of NHS England, has suggested staff involved in patient care scandals should be allowed to learn from their mistakes instead of being suspended.
Sir David admitted that the NHS does "really bad things" to patients but criticised the public for thinking that "every time a mistake is made the world falls in".
He told Civil Service World: ?If you spend all of your time trumpeting the success of the NHS you kind of get yourself into a place where you?re more interested in what the line to take is than what?s really happening to patients
?If you go to the other side of it you miss out all the great things and you significantly, I think, affect the morale of people working in the service ? so that balance is really critical.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...t-fall-in-every-time-mistake-made-on-NHS.html
Sir David admitted that the NHS does "really bad things" to patients but criticised the public for thinking that "every time a mistake is made the world falls in".
He told Civil Service World: ?If you spend all of your time trumpeting the success of the NHS you kind of get yourself into a place where you?re more interested in what the line to take is than what?s really happening to patients
?If you go to the other side of it you miss out all the great things and you significantly, I think, affect the morale of people working in the service ? so that balance is really critical.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...t-fall-in-every-time-mistake-made-on-NHS.html
