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More Cancer Specialist Nurses To Improve Hospital Care
Patients battling cancer have a better experience of care at hospitals that employ more cancer specialist nurses.
Research from the University of Southampton, shows that patients of better staffed hospitals are more likely to report being given more emotional support by nurses who work well together on wards.
Study author Peter Griffiths, Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Southampton, comments: “Cancer and its treatment can place a huge burden, both physical and psychological, on patients. Supporting people with cancer on the journey from diagnosis to treatment and beyond, which for increasing numbers includes long term survival, is a key challenge for health services. Specialist nurses have been identified as having a key role in providing support and the number employed by the NHS has increased in recent decades, however with the strain on NHS funding there is no guarantee about the future of those posts.
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