The new chief of the UK’s crisis-hit nursing watchdog has admitted it got things “completely wrong” following a series of revelations by The Independent exposing a “toxic” culture in which rogue nurses were free to work in the NHS.
In his first national interview as head of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Paul Rees apologised for a string of scandals which have dogged the watchdog and prompted a major overhaul of the beleaguered organisation.