'Patients suffer'
Hospital patients too often receive hurried and impersonal attention from their nurses because wards are inefficiently-run and health workers do not communicate enough with each other, according to an Audit Commission report.
Making Time for Patients: A Handbook for Ward Sisters and Their Managers; HMSO; pounds 5.95.
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