The English Patient (is starving)
On 21st January the Conservatives published the news item "Record number of patients starving on NHS wards", which has since inexplicably vanished from their website.
No matter, I have a screen shot (click for full story).
Mr O'Brien, Shadow Minister Health, was contacted by email and asked:
Do these alarming figures on Labour's starving patients relate to England or the whole of the UK? And do you have a source for the figures?
To date he has failed to respond. However, the Telegraph sheds some light:
The figures obtained by the Conservatives showed that 185,446 people were discharged from hospital in England in 2008/9 with a diagnosis of malnourishment, compared with 175,003 who were admitted malnourished.
It's funny that the Conservative website is, by default, an English website, and we should assume that all stories relate to England unless otherwise stated; yet the Telegraph feels that it is necessary to state that the figures apply to England alone when covering the very same story.
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