Fatal toll of our failure to feed elderly patients, by NHS bosses

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...HS-bosses.html


Frail elderly patients may die because hospital staff are failing to help them to eat properly, Health Service managers have admitted for the first time.
A survey of NHS chiefs, seen by the Daily Mail, exposes the appalling standard of care which has seen the number of those dying of malnutrition on wards rising to its highest in a decade.......

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Re: Fatal toll of our failure to feed elderly patients, by NHS bosses

Thats absolutely apalling, its seems these days that if your elderley and your admitted to hospital, it may as well be a death sentence.