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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ella Pickover

Patients need to be treated as ‘more than a number’ say nurses’ leaders

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NHS patients should be treated as “more than a number on a waiting list”, leading nurses have said.

Commenting on new figures which show dozens of patients in England have been waiting for more than three years for hospital care, the Royal College of Nursing said that “patients will pay the price” as a result of a shortage of nurses.

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