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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS nurses being investigated for ‘industrial-scale’ qualifications fraud

blurred hospital ward, staff not identifiable
Forty-eight of the nurses being investigated are already working in the NHS and have been asked to retake the test but have not been suspended. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Hundreds of frontline NHS staff are treating patients despite being under investigation for their part in an alleged “industrial-scale” qualifications fraud.

More than 700 nurses are caught up in a potential scandal, which a former head of the Royal College of Nursing said could put NHS patients at risk.

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