This has been another bad few weeks for the NHS. Channel Four aired a programme on 28 February 2011 (Dispatches : Secret NHS Diaries) which made very uncomfortable viewing – it highlighted the shocking inadequacies of palliative care in the NHS. It featured an elderly man spending his final days in hospital. He was treated with appalling insensitivity by the nursing staff, even during simple everyday tasks such as mealtimes.
This programme came in the wake of a damming report from Ann Abraham, the Health Service Ombudsman, who had carried out an in-depth review of ten cases all involving patients aged over 65, and concluded that they all had suffered unnecessary pain, neglect and distress.
Read more by Swindon Solicitor Seamus Edney
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