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Fears are growing in the NHS that quality of care experienced by patients is falling as the service struggles to cope with rising demand for treatment and tight budgets, a new survey reveals.
One in three finance directors of NHS organisations in England believes quality of care has worsened in the last year. Asked by the King's Fund health thinktank what had happened to the quality of patient care in their area in that time, 16 of the 48 said it had got worse, up from seven of 45 in the previous quarterly assessment last September, 26 said it had stayed the same and six said it had improved.
Coming a week after Robert Francis QC's damning report into the Mid Staffordshire hospital care scandal, the findings prompted fresh concern about how hospitals look after patients. Finance directors blame the coalition's NHS shake-up and an accompanying high turnover of senior staff for the apparent drop in care quality.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/14/nhs-finance-directors-care
One in three finance directors of NHS organisations in England believes quality of care has worsened in the last year. Asked by the King's Fund health thinktank what had happened to the quality of patient care in their area in that time, 16 of the 48 said it had got worse, up from seven of 45 in the previous quarterly assessment last September, 26 said it had stayed the same and six said it had improved.
Coming a week after Robert Francis QC's damning report into the Mid Staffordshire hospital care scandal, the findings prompted fresh concern about how hospitals look after patients. Finance directors blame the coalition's NHS shake-up and an accompanying high turnover of senior staff for the apparent drop in care quality.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/14/nhs-finance-directors-care