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Patients Association has repeated its call for tougher action, including independent clinical 'patient safeguarding champions' to identify those wards where a long-term cultural change is required and oversee them until it happens.
The report also said the CQC inspections may not be enough to ensure long-term change in the NHS.
"It is simply not good enough to allow hospitals to make changes in the short-term to pass follow up inspections, which mask a longer term culture amongst nursing staff who then allow standards to slip once the gaze of the CQC has shifted away to another problem hospital."
"In the 21st century, in one of the most developed countries and health systems in the world, patients should not be left starving or thirsty, they shouldn't be left in pain and they shouldn't be forced to urinate or defecate in their bed because the nurse designated to them says it's easier for them to change the sheets later than to help them to the toilet now. Yet this is what is happening around the country every day."
Emma Jones from the Healthcare Law team at Leigh Day & Co, who has dealt with abuse of patients at a number of hospitals including over 100 victims of abuse at the Stafford hospital, said: “The examples given in this report should shock us but they don't as we hear these stories on a daily basis and our experience through handling the claims from Stafford have made us only too aware of the massive gap between the care that should be given to some of society’s most vulnerable and what is administered.”
“We wholeheartedly support the Patients Association campaign and their assertion that much more must be done to ensure that all of us are guaranteed the right levels of care should we, or a family member, need it.”
The cases mentioned in the report include:
A patient having a "do not resuscitate" order put in her notes without her family's permission, meaning nurses at Central Middlesex Hospital refused to help when she struggled to breathe.
A family member witnessed a patient accidentally pouring boiling soup over her legs but the nurse saying she was too busy to clear it up, meaning the patient was scalded and a doctor had to be called.
Another, George Taylor, 83, was admitted to Chase Farm Hospital in north London in August of this year.
His daughter Gaynor Marshall said: "On one occasion during his time on the ward dad was sat in a chair by his bed and needed the toilet.
"He asked a nurse to assist him, but was told that she was too busy, and that it would be easier for her if dad relieved his bowels in the chair."
The nurse promised to clean it up later but never did, leaving Mr Taylor's wife to do so.
Another, Helena Grimwood, being treated at Southend Hospital, was often left "desperately thirsty" according to her daughter, who also said nurses neglected her toileting needs.
Sally Abbott-Sienkiewicz was admitted to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester as a cancer patient with a terminal diagnosis who contracted double pneumonia.
Her daughter Samantha said her mother's pain was at times "horrendous and horrific" but she was told her dying mother was not a priority.
The Patients Association and Nursing Standard magazine are launching a new Care campaign.
The C stands for "communicate with compassion", the A for "assist with toileting, ensuring dignity", R for "relieve pain effectively", and the E for "encourage adequate nutrition".
The aim is for nurses to use this as a checklist.