Our hospitals need to listen to their patients - The Observer 14th October 2007

As age creeps up on us, so does vulnerability and physical fragility. The scandal of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, where 90 people died as a result of a superbug, is shocking not because the toxic bacteria were found - they now plague most hospitals - but because staff at every level allowed patients to lie in squalor.

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