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I’ve never believed that all hospital admissions are undesirable or avoidable. Sometimes admission is the best, only, or safest option. But it shouldn’t avoidably make patients worse for reasons unconnected to the illness causing admission. It’s a bewildering enough start, to be whisked out of your home at short notice into an ambulance, through a busy emergency floor and into the alien environment of a hospital ward. So why compound it? Patients often have walking aids and familiar chairs, as well as moving and handling devices they are practised with. Granted, some are unsafe. But …