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Poor care at homes leads to thousand of elderly being admitted to hospital
Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are admitted to hospital as emergencies because of poor care in the community, a study has found.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
7:00AM BST 09 Aug 2012
The failure of GPs, community health services and social care services to work together means large numbers of over 65s are admitted to hospitals, the King’s Fund think tank has found.
Researchers found that 2.3m overnight stays in hospital could be prevented if all areas of the country performed as well as the top 25 per cent.
This is the equivalent of 7,000 hospital beds, or several medium sized hospitals full of elderly emergency cases every night of the year.
Trust warned over poor patient care at Dewsbury hospital
A cash-strapped hospital trust has been told to improve standards of patient care at Dewsbury and District Hospital.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued a formal warning to The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust following a visit last month.
Inspectors found some patients on ward two “were not being treated with dignity, respect or consideration”.
Stephen Eames, the trust’s interim chief executive, said he “apologised unreservedly” to affected patients.
Dearth of training in dementia diagnosis
9 July, 2012 | By Steve Ford
Nurses must receive more education and training in identifying dementia
Nurses must receive more education and training in identifying dementia, if care is to improve in line with the increasing prevalence of the condition, according to a group of MPs.
People with dementia are currently facing “shocking variations” in the time it takes for them to receive a diagnosis, a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia said last week.
