Acute care

Treatment information for outpatients must improve, trusts warned

By 2012-02-14T12:18:00

Nurse and patient consultation

Source: Alamy

Hospitals must get better at explaining treatment, according to the Care Quality Commission, after a national survey of outpatients found many were left confused about tests, medicines and side effects.

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