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    Hunt drops clause that puts NHS patients first.......once again tories talk the talk

    but fail to act....

    Jeremy Hunt has defied the central recommendation of the Mid Staffordshire inquiry

    , that the rights of patients be formally enshrined at the heart of the NHS.

    The redrafted constitution states that the health service will only 'aspire' to put patients first.

    Robert Francis, the inquiry chairman, said that one of his top priorities was for the NHS

    constitution to be rewritten, making it explicit that "patients are put first" and "everything

    done by the NHS should be informed by this ethos".

    He recommended that the Health Secretary also consider stipulating that NHS staff

    "put patients before themselves".

    But the redrafted constitution, quietly released last week, simply states that the

    health service will only "aspire" to put patients first.

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