Patient care must be protected, says RCN

Published: 14 February 2013

Efficiency savings must not come at the expense of patient care, the Royal College of Nursing has said.

The comments came as a King’s Fund report found that a third of NHS finance directors believe the quality of patient care had declined over the past year.

RCN Chief Executive & General Secretary Dr Peter Carter said: ““We know that demands on the health service are increasing and becoming more complex. We cannot continue to ignore the warnings about the detrimental effects of increasing financial pressure.”

Read Outlook For NHS and Social Care Pessimistic as Financial Squeeze Bites on the King’s Fund website.