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Elderly ‘being trapped’ in hospital, says Age UK
Elderly people are “trapped” in English hospitals in ever greater numbers as there is nowhere else for them to go, the charity Age UK has warned.
Its analysis shows patients spent a total of nearly 2.5 million days stuck in a hospital over the past five years.
Age UK said it was bad for patients’ health, a waste of NHS resources and a huge cost to taxpayers.
‘Take care complaints more seriously’ regulator says
Complaints about health and social care should be taken more seriously, says the Care Quality Commission regulator.
Its report said there was a wide variation in the way complaints were handled across the NHS, primary care and adult social care services in England.
Too often people were met with a “defensive culture”, the report said.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has welcomed the move to improve care and said progress had been made.
