The insider’s guide to HOSPITALS
You’ll get better faster if you move
The sooner you can be up and about, the less at risk you’ll be of complications such as chest infections that can knock back your recovery. ‘Ask your nurse what they’d like you to do to help yourself get better quicker,’ says Joan Pons Laplana, who works in the NHS in Norfolk. ‘We’ll know what’s safe and expected. It may be as simple as sitting in a chair, but it’ll help.’
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