Unison head of health Karen Jennings said: "The government should start a recruitment drive to encourage more cleaners to step up to the mark and drive up hospital cleaning standards.
"There are no short cuts - cleaner hospitals demand more cleaners."
Concerns were raised this week about the consultation process and the “brave” implementation timetable for a major review of NHS performance targets, due to publish recommendations in the spring.
The progress of the consultants’ contract negotiations “remains extremely slow” and has not moved on since last year, a doctors’ trade union has said.
Human body parts from NHS patients have been stored in unrefrigerated units for more than six months resulting in a smell of “decaying flesh” at a scandal hit waste management company, according to Environment Agency documents seen by HSJ.
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