Hospital knew situation

LETTER: I am writing due to the interest that has been generated by A&E nurses at the Princess Royal Hospital, Telford, "speaking out".

In answer to Tom Taylor, who said that they should have gone to the management first, how dare you?

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I am a staff nurse in this department. Firstly, this was an incident waiting to happen for a long time and, secondly, the management knew the situation well; they just chose not to listen.

But now, they have to be seen to be doing something, don't they?

The staff are doing their hardest to provide anywhere near decent patient care, against a barrage of targets, and still the public complains about a two-hour wait which these days is nothing.

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