Deaths involving malnutrition have been on the rise: NHS neglect is not to blame

An increase in the number of people dying in hospital with a diagnosis of malnutrition has prompted understandable concern. One leading charity has described the figures as “shocking.” But as Myer Glickman, Head of Quality & Methods in the Health Analysis and Life Events Division at the Office for National Statistics explains, many factors other than poverty or neglect lie behind the data.