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A round-up of the health news headlines on Thursday 16 January.
The number of elderly patients in care homes and hospitals who are subject to restraint is soaring, the Telegraph reports.
New figures from the CQC reveal there has been an 85% rise since 2009/10 in the number of applications to deprive those over 75 of their liberty, with more than 7,000 such applications in 2012/13 - more than half of which ended up being authorised.
Care workers are supposed to restrict the liberty of the most vulnerable only if it is required to protect them, and hospitals are supposed to inform regulators if such steps are taken. But they did not to do so in two thirds of cases, thus breaking the law, the CQC report found.
Rates of gout in the UK are rising rapidly, the BBC reports, with one in 40 people now affected.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/da...ork-unnecessary/20005573.article#.UteumfRdWAg
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The number of elderly patients in care homes and hospitals who are subject to restraint is soaring, the Telegraph reports.
New figures from the CQC reveal there has been an 85% rise since 2009/10 in the number of applications to deprive those over 75 of their liberty, with more than 7,000 such applications in 2012/13 - more than half of which ended up being authorised.
Care workers are supposed to restrict the liberty of the most vulnerable only if it is required to protect them, and hospitals are supposed to inform regulators if such steps are taken. But they did not to do so in two thirds of cases, thus breaking the law, the CQC report found.
Rates of gout in the UK are rising rapidly, the BBC reports, with one in 40 people now affected.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/da...ork-unnecessary/20005573.article#.UteumfRdWAg
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