Keep patients out of hospitals - they're dangerous, say GPs

But Cameron's health tsar is more positive, saying new culture can make NHS the world's safest

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THE NHS has the potential to become the safest healthcare system in the world, claims David Cameron's new health tsar Don Berwick, but it will require a new "attitude or culture" where "even a single injury" is unacceptable.

Talking in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire scandal, in which as many as 1,200 people died because of substandard care, the American told the Daily Telegraph: "There is no reason why English health care cannot aspire to be and become the safest health care in the world."

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