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The figures are shocking - around 34,000 people die
unnecessarily
 every year in today’s NHS hospitals and another 25,000 are
unnecessarily
permanently disabled.
*
 Amanda Steane’s
Who cares?
is just one of these 59,000 horrorstories. Her husband Paul went into hospital for minor surgery.After repeated mistakes and neglect by inexperienced doctors andover-worked nurses in dirty wards, Paul emerged a helplessinvalid. In constant pain and unable to walk, talk or breatheproperly, Paul took his own life.Hospital management tried to avoid any responsibility for whatwas happening to Paul – letters were ‘mislaid’, promises were‘forgotten’ and key medical records were ‘lost’. But a nurse,outraged at how Paul and Amanda were being treated, sentAmanda copies of the ‘lost’ medical records. These indicated thathospital managers were probably lying and the police started toinvestigate.In her own words and through photos of Paul’s horrific declinefrom healthy man to helpless invalid, Amanda tries to warn usabout what is happening in many hospitals in today’s NHS. Shedoes this, not to place blame, but to ensure that nobody else everagain has to suffer as Paul did
.
*Patient safety report – NHS website 2007
“Even though most of us know perfectly well that the NHS isworking under an enormous strain and that mistakes are made, few of us would deny that the story told in these pages shows just how dreadful the mistakes can be.”“Every Hospital Manager and Doctor and Nurse in the countryshould be made to read this painful book.”
 
Claire Rayner
 
 
 
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Contacting Amanda Steane
To contact Amanda Steane please visit our website:
www.nhs-whocares.com 
This will take you through to the website:www.snouts-in-the-trough.com This has a ‘contact us’ page where you can send your stories toAmanda or ask her to contact you.
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