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Dementia patients ‘routinely restrained and sedated in NHS hospitals that treat them like prisoners’

This is a real situation. Image not to be used in a defamatory context. Elderly care ward. Patient taking her medication on the elderly care ward of a hospital. Photographed in Southampton, UK.

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Some patients are prevented from leaving their bed for weeks at a time, with victims likening their stay to being imprisoned, kidnapped or held hostage

Dementia patients are being routinely restrained and sedated in NHS hospitals which treat them like prisoners, a shocking report reveals. Read More

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