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From a war-zone A&E to hellhole wards, my dispiriting week in an NHS hospital

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

I am in a good position to report from the NHS frontline, having been in hospital with pneumonia for just over a week from 28 December.

I was admitted following an early evening visit from a district nurse to the home I share with my younger daughter, her husband and their three children.

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