Warning on hospital diabetes care

[Northerner]

Some hospitals are doing people with diabetes "more harm than good", a charity has warned after figures suggested that every year thousands of patients develop a life-threatening but preventable complication due to poor care.

Over a five-day period, 61 patients developed diabetic ketoacidosis during their hospital stay. If the figures are extrapolated, it could mean that as many as 4,400 diabetic patients suffer from the condition while in hospital each year.

Charity Diabetes UK said it is "appalling" that any patients should develop the complication - which is caused by a shortage of insulin.

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/...rning-on-hospital-diabetes-care-0-7548747.xnf

 

[Northerner]

Blogger Nick Guerin writes about his recent experience:

http://typeaware.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/a-hospital-admission-a-patients-perspective/

 

[trophywench]

Blimey.

And that isn't what I wanted to say.