New guidance urges higher priority on hip fractures

NICE is recommending that all hip surgery should take place at most a day after hospital admission, amid accusations that hip fracture patients are being given ‘low priority’ by NHS hospitals. There have been frequent reports in recent weeks of elderly people suffering discrimination in...
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Elderly account for higher use of NHS resources year on year, according to report

A report by the NHS Information Centre has found that the amount of NHS resources being used by the elderly is increasing year on year. Data from the report showed that hospital stays for the elderly have increased by two thirds...

NHS starving the elderly, says report

Elderly NHS patients are being left to starve at some trusts, according to a report by charity Age UK.

The report, Hungry To Be Heard, found that patients were actually being less well nourished than when they came into the hospital.

Age UK director Michelle Mitchell said: ‘The Government must introduce compulsory monitoring. Age UK is...