We need more honesty about NHS difficulties
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We need more honesty about NHS difficulties

Peter Carter OBE Independent management consultant and former RCN general secretary

The Department of Health’s failure to acknowledge the problems in the health service only alienates colleagues

Nursing Standard editor Graham Scott is to be congratulated on his recent editorial in which he laments the complacent approach by the Department of Health (DH) press office to the many issues facing the health service.

Nursing Standard. 32, 5, 27-27. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.5.27.s24

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