An NHS–funded report has delivered a withering verdict on standards in hospitals before, during and after hugely risky surgical treatment
Seriously ill patients who have some of the riskiest surgery in medicine are dying unnecessarily because care at too many hospitals is not good enough, an NHS-funded inquiry has found.
More than one in 10 (11%) of those having emergency bowel surgery die within 30 days, according to an audit of the treatment received by 21,000 patients at 192 hospitals in England and Wales.
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