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“Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards”

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. The death toll was disclosed by the Government amid mounting concern over the dignity of patients on NHS wards. The records, from the Office for National Statistics, follow a series of scandals of care of the elderly…

Telegraph
“Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards”
October 6, 2012
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