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Nurses tell of heartbreak as patients left to die alone due to staff shortages
A hospital bed in a corridor at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital

NURSES have told of their heartbreak over how hospital patients are being left to die alone due to shocking staff shortages.

In a report published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) today, staff said standards have fallen so low that the “benchmark is survival.”

A midwife said there were “completely unsafe care due to unacceptable staffing levels” in the Yorkshire hospital she works in.

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