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Medical experts propose hospital doctors treat patients at home
Meet rising care demand by minimising ward stays and sending doctors on home visits, advises Future Hospital Commission
Our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenge of an ageing population and increasing hospital admissions. All too often our most vulnerable patients – those who are old, who are frail or who have dementia – are failed by a system ill-equipped and seemingly unwilling to meet their needs," says the report, which was commissioned by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), which represents 28,000 hospital doctors.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/12/plan-hospital-doctors-treat-patients-home
Meet rising care demand by minimising ward stays and sending doctors on home visits, advises Future Hospital Commission
Our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenge of an ageing population and increasing hospital admissions. All too often our most vulnerable patients – those who are old, who are frail or who have dementia – are failed by a system ill-equipped and seemingly unwilling to meet their needs," says the report, which was commissioned by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), which represents 28,000 hospital doctors.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/12/plan-hospital-doctors-treat-patients-home
