Patients sent home from hospital with no advice on how to cope, watchdog finds Record numbers of patients are being sent home from hospital without being told how to look after themselves, a watchdog has found.
A major report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) reveals the proportion of patients - 60 per cent - given written advice on how to cope in the aftermath of a hospital stay has reached a 10-year low.
The regulator also sounded “alarm bells” that a significant proportion of patients discharged with medication - 44 per cent - are not being told about possible side-effects to watch out for. The Daily Telegraph
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