A frail hospital patient was left without food for ten days after several failed attempts by medical staff to insert a feeding tube.
The revelations came to light in a report into Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife, after an unannounced inspection.
The report by Healthcare Improvement Scotland revealed that in one ward the elderly patient "had lost a significant amount of their body weight" as a result of not being fed.
A nurse was observed bringing the patient a meal despite the patient being assessed as unsafe to swallow food or drink.
The same report stated that in a different ward a dementia sufferer also received "little or no" food or fluid intake for five days in a row.
http://news.stv.tv/east-central/268274-elderly-patient-left-without-food-for-ten-days-at-victoria-hospital/
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