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The article discusses New Public Governance in the light of an understanding of care and caring. New Public Governance is based on a view of humanity where each human being is an actor in his own life. Nursing care is based on a relational view of humanity where the moral responsibility for fellow human beings is a key element. The purpose of the article is to identify the pitfalls of the moral responsibility to put forward new ways of acting to prevent neglect of care in a New Public Governance healthcare system. Florence Nightingale is introduced as a role model for moral responsibility, as her point of departure is to create life-conducing ways of acting in a relational collaboration with the patient. This collaboration is based on the person and the existence of this person. The article argues for a pressing demand to act and that the nurse in the specific care situation must discover which appeal for help is expressed by the patient and which life phenomena are at stake. The New Public Governance ideal is that self-management and involvement may lead to avoidance of responsibility and neglect of care. Thus, the focus should be to reclaim care as a value in society and assess the right distribution of responsibility between the patient and the nurse in each individual situation.

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