NEWS:At least 140,000 patients were put at risk last year owing to NHS incidents in the middle of the night in Britain, figures showed yesterday.
Trips, falls and medication errors between 10pm-6am meant thousands had their safety compromised when they were supposed to be asleep. The study was carried out for Reader's Digest.
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"I think somebody is to blame. I don't know who but someone needs to hold up their hands and say 'we did it wrong'. The system failed them and I just want somebody to say sorry."
- Nina Griffiths whose parents, Rosemary and Lionel Owen, died within 20 minutes of each other having both contracted the hospital bug Clostridium difficile (C diff) at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter. An inquest last week recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.