Improvements in patient safety made after the Mid Staffs scandal are being undone amid NHS-wide financial problems and chronic staff shortages, the TUC has warned in a report. The report cites long waits for treatment, the greater rationing of care and patients trapped in hospitals despite being fit to leave. Each month we are seeing patient safety put at risk by staff shortages, longer waiting times and cuts to services”, said Frances O’Grady, the TUC’s general secretary. The TUC report, Patient safety: warnings from all sides, claims that what was meant to be a gradual rollout of safe staffing ratios across every area of hospital care was halted earlier this year. The CQC recently stated in its annual review: “The safety of care is our biggest concern.

Source: The Guardian November 26, 2016 21:56 UTC