Death By Single Payer Health Care: NHS left family on the other side of curtain as their mother died. The failings have been outlined in a damning report by the health service ombudsman.

The Telegraph reports on the British:

A catalogue of serious failings by NHS trusts across the country have been outlined in a damning report by the health service ombudsman.


A litany of complaints made by patients and their families, such as a man with dementia left on a trolley for 33 hours and relatives of a woman forced to listen to her die from the other side of a curtain, highlight poor complaint handling and failures across the NHS.

The report, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, contains the details of 163 investigations into unresolved complaints made over two months last year, including breaches of cancer waiting times, families resorting to putting their family in private care following unsafe discharges from A&E on Christmas Day and the death of an unborn baby following missed opportunities to deliver it early.

The ombudsman said that of 618 complaints made during October and November 2014, 41 per cent were upheld. Some 80 per cent of its investigations are about the NHS in England whilst others concern government departments and their agencies.

Death by government.