UK hospital care horrific - report

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An independent inquiry said on Tuesday it had found ''shocking'' standards of care at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust in the Midlands, including patients being left unwashed for up to a month. The inquiry's chair Robert Francis said many patients treated by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust had ''suffered horrific experiences that will haunt them and their loved ones for the rest of their lives''...

[Again and again - not the individual horror stories, all systems have them (including ours) - but studies of effectiveness in the macro invariably draw the same picture again and again: government involvement destroys systems.]

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