Elderly people and the NHS

Patients Association has been receiving calls on our helpline from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses,” she said. “These bad, cruel nurses may be – probably are – a tiny proportion of the nursing work force, but even if they are only one or 2% of the whole, they should be identified and struck off