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Dignity on the ward — a policy briefing
Corporate Author	Help the Aged
Publisher	Help the Aged, London, January 1999
Pages	4 pp (Dignity on the ward campaign)
Source	Help the Aged, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0BE.
Keywords	Hospital services ; Patients ; Medical care ; Management [care] ; Help the Aged.
Annotation	Following media reports about the poor care of some older people in hospital, Help the Aged's response has been to set up the "Dignity on the Ward" campaign to improve their quality of life. The main objectives are to: ensure that the Government acts to improve the care of older people in hospital; to see that managers run their hospitals to the kind of standards older people expect; to promote good practice in the care of older people on the ward by NHS staff; and to enable older people to improve their situation if they run into problems in hospital. This briefing cites findings from the Health Advisory Service 2000 (HAS 2000) report, "Not because they are old", which investigated treatment of older people in hospital. It also suggests how the public might be involved with the campaign. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990223209 P
Classmark	LD: LF: LK: QA: PYH
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