In this week's Scrubbing Up Nuala Close, lead cancer nurse, at Barts and The London NHS Trust warns that some patients are putting their lives at risk by needlessly neglecting their health and mistakenly refusing or delaying their treatment until after Ramadan.

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Following the Care Quality Commission's recent report on what it called "alarmingly" poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week's Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people.

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