Pressure sores--a ticking time-bomb

Health Service managers and administrators increasingly find themselves under fire for intruding on what have traditionally been regarded as clinical or nursing decisions as demands increase for more efficiency and cost cutting, particularly in hospital care. Now there is a new turn of the screw. It appears that pressures sores, frequently given low priority despite being potential killer, are revealed to be a time-bomb ticking away under the bedclothes. Indeed, the estimated 2000 deaths a year in the UK attributed to pressure sores suggest that conventional hospital beds and mattresses should carry a health warning!