December 13, 2012
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NHS hospital wards on ‘brink of collapse’ as number of beds falls by a third and doctors struggle to cope with 37% rise in patients.
Elderly patients are being shunted between hospital wards ‘like parcels’ because of a shortage of beds, say doctors who have warned the current system is on ‘the brink of collapse’.
Frail patients are frequently woken up in the night and made to walk to another department in their pyjamas because someone else needs their bed, a damning report has found.
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Article courtesy of the Daily Mail
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Author Sophie Borland
