In response to the Department of Health's final year report for the Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board, Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said: 'Despite thousands of older people dying in hospital while malnourished each year, the failure of Health Ministers to lay out any concrete actions to tackle the problem will mean this scandal will continue. 'It is hugely disappointing that despite a lot of goodwill and excellent work among some individual hospital trusts, ending malnutrition has been reduced to a talking shop by the Government...
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