Winter crisis highlights ministers’ failure to take staffing seriously
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Winter crisis highlights ministers’ failure to take staffing seriously

Graham Scott @NSeditor Editor, Nursing Standard

Barely a winter passes without the NHS being described as being at breaking point, in crisis, on its knees – select a cliché of your choice. This time around the government has responded by cancelling routine operations in England for a month in a desperate attempt to regain control.

Nursing Standard. 32, 20, 3-3. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.20.3.s1

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