Treatment of intensive care patients is sometimes so poor it is contributing to their deaths, a watchdog has warned.

Half of patients who died had had "less than good" treatment, and in a third of those cases it may have been partly to blame for their death, its study found

This is a shocking report. What we do not have, unfortunately, is a report done with the same methodology on, say, four or five other countries. So we know the NHS treats people who are in crisis in a poor way. We don't really know how much worse it is (assuming, as I do, that it is worse) than in other advanced countries.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in NHS

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