Nurses spend more than 1 million hours a week - one-fifth of their working week - on paperwork and they believe it stops them from spending enough time with patients, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing.
One in three nurses questioned said they had no clerical support and 89 per cent said non-essential paperwork had increased over the last five years.
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