In brief

More hospitals are meeting patients’ nutritional needs: The NHS and social care inspector in England, the Care Quality Commission, has found that 88% of hospitals it visited in 2012 made sure that patients had help to eat and drink, up from 83% in 2011.1 However, the number of hospitals found to be respecting people’s privacy and dignity fell from 88% in 2011 to 82% in 2012, with, for example, call bells being left unanswered. Care homes were inspected for the first time: 84% were found to respect people’s privacy and dignity and 83% met their nutritional needs.2

Doctor struck off for failing to examine homeless man properly: A former police doctor has been struck off the UK medical register for failing to properly examine a homeless man before advising police that he was fit to be detained. Hisham El-Baroudy spent only one minute in the cell …