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    Hunt U-turn: more nurses are needed in the NHS

    The NHS may have to recruit hundreds of extra nurses to improve standards of care in hospitals

    , the Health Secretary conceded today.

    Jeremy Hunt said a review of appropriate staffing levels by a new Chief

    Inspector of Hospitals would almost certainly result in an increase in the number of nurses on hospital wards. "I wouldn't be

    surprised if many more nurses are employed," Mr Hunt said.

    Until now health chiefs have said that the reduction in nursing numbers was not

    affecting patient care.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Mr Hunt refused to say if cutbacks in nursing staff and a dependence on unregulated healthcare

    assistants had contributed to a decline in standards of care.

    The Health Secretary was delivering the Government's response to the Francis Inquiry.

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