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Nov 2019
NHS staffing crisis amongst nurses now ‘impacting on patient survival’ as hospital numbers running short triples in five years
Recent figures show that the number of hospitals regularly understaffed with nurses has nearly tripled in the last five years, with the worst hit departments including geriatric medicine, acute medicine, critical care, neonatal care and cardiology, where quality care is essential in order to save lives. Information obtained through a series of Freedom of Information…