Health Service Ombudsman report: decline in quality of nursing care?
A number of cases of failures in nursing care have been revealed in the recent Health Service Ombudsman (HSO) Annual Report for England 2000-01. This article highlights some cases from the report as well as recent HSO investigations carried out over the past 4 months.
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Nottingham Law School, The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
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