In a post-Francis-report world, people have realised that we need to bring the staff who deliver the front-line care back on board, given that we know that there are parallels between the number of nurses available to care for people and the quality of outcomes.Although we welcome the slight increase, we can see that the change in the nursing budget line to which I referred earlier is related to the fact that we have for a number of years—until last year, which was welcome—cut the number of nurses who are going into pre...