Rayner blames 'bad' nurses for patient cruelty
AGONY aunt Claire Rayner has attacked NHS nurses for "cruel" and "demeaning" treatment of elderly patients in their care.
The former nurse said she was "sickened" by what has happened to parts of her profession, and called for "bad" nurses to be struck off the medical register.
A report out today from the Patients' Association revealed stories of people left lying in their own faeces and urine, having call bells taken away from them and being left without food or drink.
Rayner said: "For far too long the Patients' Association has been receiving calls from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses.
"Some found it helped to talk to us, for they had had scant comfort from trying to make complaints about what had happened to people they loved."
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