NHS Health Trusts in England undergo checks amid fears that patients are starving

Health trusts undergo checks amid fears that patients are starving - article in the Daily Telegraph

Extract:

"A total of 23 NHS trusts in England are to be inspected amid concerns that they are failing to feed frail and vulnerable elderly people properly, the Healthcare Commission announced today.

Inspectors will go through files, observe wards and speak to staff who will be interviewed anonymously."

There have been reports of elderly people starving in hospitals and in care homes before. (Click on the 'Elderly people starving' tag below.) - This shocking institutional negligence can only flourish when there is inadequate monitoring of these institutions and when sanctions against such negligence are not sufficiently severe.

I do hope that the inspectors will speak to some of the elderly people themselves, as well as to members of staff.


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