My father in law is being starved to death in hospital

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We are going to make an appt with the consultant to demand answers and will take this further

This is not the correct way to raise the issue. The consultant has of course a duty of care towards your FIL, but the main concerns here is that established policies are not being adhered to, or seems not to be from your professional perspective, and that this failure might have serious impact on patients' care.

It really IS a safeguarding issue and that is really the best route to take. The SG Lead is likely to be the Chief Nursing Officer (Head/Director of Nursing), or the Clinical Director. You really need to go through them or you are risking this matter to not be investigated appropriately, or dealt only in regards to your FIL rather than the whole hospital procedures, in which case, more patients could continue to be detrimentally affected.

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milliemonster wrote: »

In himself FIL is still able to give consent and have capacity, but he is incredibly withdrawn, doesn't really talk much, he just sits staring into space he has very little strength and is now just skin and bone, pale and battered and bruised.

We're going to the hospital today to visit this afternoon so will try to find out what's going in.

Get access to the notes.

We had the crazy situation that both my parents were in hospital at the same time, same ward and they would not let other family discuss till we got concent, they soon bucked up when they knew medically trained people were watching the notes and charts.

I would have a good look to make sure they had not put him on EOL or DNR(had that been asked?).