If it isn't bad enough with the super bugs in the hospitals, a new study shows that some patients are not being fed properly while in the hospital...are the nurses that busy tending to the large number of patients...anyway one more issue facing the NHS in the UK....BD
The number of NHS patients suffering from malnourishment as they leave hospital has nearly doubled, new figures show. Around 140,000 patients were discharged after being inadequately fed on NHS wards last year, statistics obtained by the Conservatives reveal.
The number released from hospital suffering from malnutrition, nutritional anaemia, or other nutritional deficiencies has risen by 84 per cent in the decade since Labour came to power, from 74,431 in 1997 to 139,127. The shadow health minister Stephen O'Brien, who obtained the statistics, described them as a "scandal".
Last year, the health minister Ivan Lewis admitted patients were being starved on wards, with some elderly people given little more than a scoop of mashed potato for lunch. "Nurses are so rushed off their feet that it is no surprise that patients end up malnourished.
"We have heard stories of elderly people who haven't had a meal all day because they have just been overlooked. The food is just taken away when the patient hasn't been able to eat any of it.
"It is a scandal in the 21st century - it ought never to happen."
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