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Housing for hospital staff
• “LONG gone are the days when hospitals provided accommodation to their staff”, according to Sir Robert Naylor, (Staff are at the top of our agenda, Letters, July 2).
As someone who endured a nine-day stay at University College Hospital at the end of last year, may I ask whether there is any connection between the poor level of nursing on some UCLH wards and the difficulty of finding affordable accommodation for staff? Why does one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals with a brand new building need anyone from an agency? What proportion of nurses on UCLH’s wards is hired in this way?
Sir Robert’s dismissal of residents at John Astor House as “a tiny fraction of trust staff” needs to be taken up by the new governing body. Handing over staff to unaccountable landlords with a poor maintenance record is inconsistent with the claim that UCLH “puts its staff… at the top of the agenda.” This stands irrespective of the numbers involved.
JOHN MASON
Whidborne Street, WC1
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