UK'S "NURSE OF THE YEAR" QUITS BECAUSE OF RED-TAPE

UK TELEGRAPH: 'Nurse of the year' leaves for private sector

The "Nurse of the Year" 2007 has quit the NHS after becoming "ground down" by the bureaucrats and excessive paperwork that plague her profession.

Justine Whitaker was awarded the Nursing Standard title this year but is leaving East Lancashire Primary Care Trust next month for the private sector and to become a lecturer.

The 36-year-old has told how nursing staff were made to use cheaper bandages and dressings while health bosses wasted money on long meetings that achieved nothing.

She yesterday warned that a culture of "mistrust and fear" had crept into the NHS and things were bound to go "completely wrong" in Britain's hospitals if nothing is done.

• IF IT DOESN'T WORK THERE, THEN WHY DO IT HERE!?

• IT MAKES NO SENSE.

• BUT THAT'S WHAT ALL THE DEMS WANT TO DO.

• IF NATIONALIZATION AND SOCIALISM WORKED THEN WE'D ALL BE GOING TO THE USSR FOR HEALTHCARE.