Under new plans for the NHS, trainee nurses will train in basic care for a year, feeding, washing and
dressing patients, to ensure compassion.
(This is partly in response to the Stafford hospital inquiry, where harrowing neglect and abuse took place between 2005 to 2008.
Interestingly no such recommendations are to be made for doctors or surgeons. Maybe there were no doctors and surgeons at Stafford hospital, or perhaps they are considered to be above such things as compassion.)
