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Hospitals send dementia patients to homes without food or heating Watchdog inquiry into claims that patients with dementia sent back into homes without food or heating. Dementia sufferers are being sent from hospital to homes without heating or food, a health watchdog has warned as it announces the first national inquiry into the way patients are discharged from wards. More than 1 million patients were readmitted to hospital as an emergency last year within a month of being sent home, official figures show - a rise of more than one quarter in a decade. Patients’ groups said tens of thousands of patients were being placed at risk because they were sent home too early, without the right care, and in some cases without even basic amenities. Research has found elderly patients being discharged from wards in the middle of the night, with some hospitals discharging one in 10 patients outside daylight hours in order to free up beds. The inquiry by Healthwatch England - the statutory consumer champion for health and social care - will hear evidence from 148 of its community groups about failings to discharge patients safely. telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10813636/Hospitals-send-dementia-patients-to-homes-without-food-or-heating.html
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 12:58:01 +0000

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