Patients in hospitals are not being put first, healthcare professionals say - Telegraph
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The study, by influential think tank the Kings Fund, paints a devastating picture of a health service culture in which the needs of the sick come second to management targets and ministers’ priorities.
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The report, based on a survey of more than 900 healthcare professionals which was undertaken before the head of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, announced plans to retire, found little confidence among frontline staff and managers about those in charge of the service.
Just one per cent of those polled thought the leadership of the NHS was very good, with 13 per cent rating it as good - compared with 40 per cent who said it was poor or very poor.