A key survey provided evidence that in a substantial minority of hospitals, patients are dying due to lack of care, with one in every seven GPs reporting a local hospital department as 'dangerously sub-standard'. The survey, conducted by Pulse and entitled 'Practical Commissioning', attracted a response rate of about 167 from 500 GPs who stated they believed a patient had received dangerously poor care at their local hospital in the last year...

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