title: Learning to speak up about hospital failures.
abstract: The recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on discharging older people from acute hospitals in England revealed that rising numbers of patients are remaining in hospital when they are clinically ready to go home.
authors.forename: Dawne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Garrett
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom