The executive summary of the Francis report states on page 45:
“There was an unacceptable delay in addressing the issue of shortage of skilled nursing staff.”
The CQC tells us that 17 hospitals are operating with dangerously low levels of nursing staff, resulting in poor care. Does the Prime Minister agree that it is now time
to do something about levels of nursing and those ratios rather than leaving it to hospital boards or individual trust boards to decide them?