The Telegraph reports that the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) say that poor care contributed to at least some of the more than 3,000 deaths they analysed. "One in three patients who died within days of being admitted did not receive acceptable standards."
I urge you to read the report, which is described as "shocking".
Around 300,000 people die every year in British hospitals.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Hundreds of deaths a year in British hospitals associated with poor health care
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