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26/03/2013
Nurses To Spend Time As Healthcare Assitants
New proposals will see nurses spend time as healthcare assistants doing basic tasks such as washing and dressing before completing their degree training.
It is part of a package of measures being introduced as a response to the Stafford hospital inquiry.
It is understood that ministers will concede a change of culture is needed across the system.
The Stafford hospital inquiry claimed the public had been betrayed over the way the scandal was handled.
The public inquiry, published at the start of February, accused the NHS of putting corporate self-interest ahead of patients, concluding the failings went from the top to the bottom of the system.
From a total of 290 recommendations ministers are expected to lay out a series of steps they are taking to answer the main themes that arose from the inquiry.
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It is part of a package of measures being introduced as a response to the Stafford hospital inquiry.
It is understood that ministers will concede a change of culture is needed across the system.
The Stafford hospital inquiry claimed the public had been betrayed over the way the scandal was handled.
The public inquiry, published at the start of February, accused the NHS of putting corporate self-interest ahead of patients, concluding the failings went from the top to the bottom of the system.
From a total of 290 recommendations ministers are expected to lay out a series of steps they are taking to answer the main themes that arose from the inquiry.
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