Unconscious bias and (nursing) care

In January 2023 according to Rafferty and Leary (2023), 10 years after what was supposed to be a ‘never again event’ Sir Robert Francis and the CEO of the Patients Association wrote to the Secretary of State for Health in England saying that they were witnessing a ‘scandal playing out at a national level (p. 3)’. What was to have heralded in new standards and new ways of working following the Mid Staffordshire scandal was moving towards yet another disaster. Francis was on record as describing the voice of nursing as being too weak (to prevent this) and not accorded the respect it deserved.