Quality and performance

Revealed: More older people waiting in pain for urgent hip operations

By 2018-02-12T06:00:00

Human hip

More older patients are waiting too long in hospital before treatment for painful and crippling hip fractures, new data reveals, potentially undermining “compassion and dignity” for patients.

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