As the pressures on nurses increase with growing patient numbers, Dispatches investigates the reality of their work and examines whether patient care is being compromised in NHS hospitals. In candid interviews nurses describe what life is really like on many wards, and make shocking admissions. This film also reveals the results of a specially commissioned YouGov survey of nurses working in NHS hospitals across the country, revealing the high percentages of nurses who argue that patient care has deteriorated over the last few years, and the number who say they have too many patients to look after properly.