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Scandal of dead bodies left on hospital ward in funding crisis

Dead bodies are being left on hospital wards overnight because of a shortage of night porters to move them to a mortuary, it has emerged. Nurses at a hospital in Lancashire have been told dead patients cannot be moved until the following day because of a funding crisis

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