Acute care

CQC: Thousands of care home patients admitted unnecessarily

By 2012-11-23T00:01:00

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Source: colourbox.com

More than 14,000 older patients spent over a week in hospital before they died during 2011-12, analysis by the Care Quality Commission has found.

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