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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Changes made at London hospital after elderly man dies with frostbite in squalid flat

The vulnerable 77-year-old had been treated at the Royal London Hospital - (PA)

A hospital was told to review its discharge policy after an elderly man who had been a patient died with frostbite in his squalid east London flat.

The vulnerable 77-year-old was sent home from the Royal London Hospital without “critical oversights regarding his flat's readiness, particularly the lack of gas heating during winter” being done, a recently published review into the case found.

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