Are elderly patients being let down?

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which represents 400,000 nurses, is claiming that elderly patients are being badly treated by the NHS due to a shortage of nurses. Is this your experience too? A RCN survey of 1,700 nurses found that staff shortages were affecting wards for the elderly in particular and that it has [...]

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Scandal of man dying alone on a hospital trolley

Stories of poor patient care are not a rarity unfortunately but it is still shocking to hear the case of a man who died after being left on a trolley all day. The man, who has not been named, was left on the trolley for 20 hours while there was a wait for him to [...]

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“Incompetent” surgeon struck off

A surgeon, who was said to lack the competence of a newly-qualified doctor, has been struck off the medical register. Puvaneswary Markandoo was said to be behind failings at Guy’s Hospital in London which led to the deaths of two notable women; Observer journalist Ruth Picardie and Beth Wagstaff, a woman who co-founded a trust [...]

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