The number of serious incidents related to poor nutritional care of hospital patients has almost doubled, figures show.
The answer to a parliamentary question posed by the Conservatives reveals that the number of serious incidents reported anonymously by NHS staff increased from 15,000 in 2005 to 29,000 in 2007.
Shadow health minister Stephen O'Brien said: "This is a further disgraceful statistic from a government which has failed patients and the public. People go to hospital expecting to get better, yet in 2007, 29,000 people suffered unnecessary and completely avoidable harm from poor nutritional care."
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