Twenty-eight patients have died across hospitals in England after NHS staff wrongly inserted feeding tubes into their airways.
Tube feeding, also referred to as artificial feeding, is a way of providing nutrition or fluids to patients who are unable to eat or drink.
There are many reasons why someone is not able to drink or eat enough, with some of the most common being swallowing difficulties for example following a stroke or due to neurological conditions such as motor neurone disease.
