The unions blame poor pay. The sight of a patient lying in bed surrounded by the very latest in diagnostic equipment but with food congealing on a plate at bedside is commonplace.
Care can be fragmentary.
I was lowered into the bath on a chair, then I was forgotten. I was too weak to pull the cord. I was covered in bedsores. I certainly do not wish to ever again enter an English hospital. To understand what has happened, you have to remember the origins of nursing, associated with Florence Nightingale.