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diabetic patients are victims of medication errors that can cause dangerous blood glucose levelsBy Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:05 GMT, 16 May 2012 | Updated: 23:06 GMT, 16 May 2012 13 View comments Almost one in three diabetic hospital patients are victims of medication errors that can cause dangerous blood glucose levels, a report has found.Hospitals in England and Wales made at least one mistake per inpatient in the treatment of 3,700 diabetes sufferers in one week, data showed.During this period, the affected patients succumbed to more than double the number of severe hypoglycaemic, or “hypo”, episodes that patients without errors suffered, according to the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit.Hypos occur when blood glucose levels drop dangerously low and if left untreated can lead to seizures, coma or death. Under threat: Diabetic patients are being administered poor care in hospital wards Diabetes UK said the findings were an indictment of how hospitals were failing to care for people with diabetes.Chief executive Barbara Young said: 'The fact that there are so many mistakes and that for some people a stay in hospital means they get worse should simply not be happening.'Poor blood glucose management, caused by errors in hospital treatment, is leading to severe and dangerous consequences for too many people.'Although we know that some excellent steps have been taken, including courses and online tools, to increase knowledge and education among healthcare staff for the treatment of people with diabetes on hospital wards, we are not seeing good enough results from this yet.'The fact that the situation has barely improved in the last year shows that the NHS is not yet taking this seriously enough.'Urgent action is needed to make sure that general ward staff are competent and confident about treating inpatients with diabetes.' WHAT THE REPORT FOUND Almost a third (30.6%) of patients who responded to a patient experience questionnaire said they had not been able to take control of their own diabetes while in hospital as much as they would have liked to.More than 13% of patients said the hospital did not provide the right type of food to manage their diabetes.Almost 10% of inpatients with diabetes had been on an insulin infusion in the past seven days of the audit period but the healthcare professionals collecting the data suggested that 10% of these patients were inappropriately given the infusions.Specialist