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Unfair to target nurses

The Francis report makes many recommendations in relation to the failure of care to patients and I feel it is unfair to target nursing.

Many nurses work to high standards with very high workloads and the majority do a very good job in very challenging circumstances with regard to staffing, targets and expectations.

We need to refocus the expectations and be more realistic in what the NHS can do and stop dancing to the number crunchers’ tune.

Senior managers must be made to be more accountable for the decisions they make and [the situations] put their junior staff into.

Re: Nurse training