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NHS 'not putting safety first'

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The Commons Health Select Committee is claiming that a failure to put patient safety first in the NHS in England has contributed to recent cases of "disastrously unsafe care".

It says that some trusts pay more attention to finances and targets than to the welfare of patients.

Branwen Jeffreys reports.

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