Marie Curie response to Royal College of Nursing report

Marie Curie response to Royal College of Nursing report: 'Safe and Effective Staffing: Nursing Against the Odds'

Simon Jones, Director, Policy and Public Affairs at Marie Curie said:

"Knowing patients at the end of life continue to die alone in hospital due to chronic nursing shortages is deeply distressing.

"The care nurses provide is so valuable and we know that good relationships with patients at the end of life, and their families, can have hugely positive outcomes. To read in this report that nurses are being reduced to tears and are left feeling devastated after a shift, as they are being stretched so thin, is saddening.

"Every patient at the end of life deserves the care and support they need to die with dignity, without pain and with the people they love around them. But without sufficient nurses to ensure this happens and provide this crucial end of life care people will continue to die without all the care and support they need."