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Barbara Millar
‘If you cannot access the controlled drugs a patient needs, because of how quickly they have been discharged, you cannot provide proper care,’ says
Dr Jackson. ‘It is a big mess.’
But the dying will often end up in hospital anyway – brought in as emergency admissions following falls or after becoming extremely unwell,
or because their carer has ultimately collapsed with the burden of it all.
Barbara Millar is a journalist specialising in health issues
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