Article: Eight per cent of patients say hospital wards are dirty.....

CALDERDALE'S hospital is among the worst in Yorkshire for unclean wards, say patients.

A survey of in-patients put Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust in the bottom five in the region.

Eight per cent of people rated the ward they stayed in not very or not at all clean.

Only Bradford, Mid Yorkshire, and Scarborough and north east Yorkshire, where the figures were 10 per cent, and Leeds, where the number was 9 per cent, were ranked below Calderdale and Huddersfield.

The report by health watchdog the Healthcare Commission asked in-patients about their hospital experiences.

Of those who replied, 27 per cent said they had stayed ...

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