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End-of-life care needs urgent review, says charity
The current care system in the UK for patients with terminal illnesses is in need of a major overhaul claims a new report. Researchers from the London School of Economics said that every year, more than 100,000 people who would benefit from palliative care are not...
hospital found guilty of Legionella risk
The biggest hospital in Sussex has admitted that it put patients at risk of catching a fatal bug after a woman died in their care. 78-year-old Joan Rayment from Brighton caught legionella during her stay at the town’s Royal Sussex County hospital. The bacterium causes...
Changes brought in to England’s Care System
Major changes to England’s care system are being introduced today (1st April). The changes apply to the care system for elderly people as well as that for younger adults with disabilities and are being dubbed the ‘biggest shake-up in the last 60 years’. It is hoped...
Mother due more than £500,000 compensation for medical negligence
A mother who suffered acute brain damage, due to medical negligence following the birth of her third child, has won the right to more than £500,000 damages from the NHS. An obstetric emergency had developed during the child’s birth when a scar left by a previous...
hospital deficits in East of England risking patient safety
Research conducted by the BBC has highlighted hospital debts in the East of England which could be putting patients at risk. Some of East Anglia’s key hospitals – including Milton Keynes, Colchester, Peterborough and Stamford, Mid Essex, Kings Lynn, Ipswich,...
New Code of Contact Introduced for Midwives & Nurses
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published a revised code of contact today (31st March), intended to place the expectations of patients at the heart of professional nursing and midwifery practice. The new code has been put in place to reflect the many...
Maternal deaths investigation finds series of concerns
An investigation into Hackney’s Homerton hospital where four women died before or during childbirth in the space of 12 months has discovered a number of concerns at the hospital. Inspectors from the NHS London clinical senate established that staff at the hospital...
Family of pensioner receive settlement for hospital failings
The family of a pensioner whose death was partly down to failings by Sunderland Royal hospital have received an out-of-court settlement. 75-year-old Jean James died last year after medics at the hospital failed to give her the necessary medication to prevent her from...
National body needed to investigate medical accidents in England, MPs say
Clear Law is backing calls from MPs to establish a national body to investigate medical accidents happening in England. The House of Commons Public Administration select committee said the service needs to be established immediately to tackle the scale of issues in...
Barnsley medical centre issued hundreds of faulty vaccines, reports suggest
A medical centre in Barnsley is potentially facing hundreds of legal claims after vaccines were found to have been stored in in a faulty fridge for five years, compromising their effectiveness for patients. Over 500 children now face having to be reinoculated because...
England’s NHS Services at worst since early 90s, says review
A leading health think tank has branded NHS services in England the worst they have been since the early 1990s. The King's Fund review said A&E waiting times, cancer care and operations in general were getting worse, with deficits growing. It acknowledged that the...
Government issues apology for contaminated blood catastrophe
The Government has apologised following the release of the long-awaited Penrose report, which has given details of how NHS patients were issued with contaminated blood supplies in the 1970s and 80s. Referred to as the NHS’s worst treatment catastrophe in history, the...
Healthcare assistants lack training, suggests study
A BBC investigation has found that patients are being “put at risk” by healthcare assistants who are working without sufficient training or supervision. Although Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said previously that training for healthcare assistants was at its highest...
Woman died after dirty drip left in arm
The devastated parents of a woman who died when a dirty drip wasn’t removed from her arm for four days are taking action against The Luton and Dunstable hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 28-year-old Claire Allnutt had been recovering well from necrotising fasciitis, a...
Yorkshire man died following GP failings
A 70-year-old Yorkshire man died after two GPs failed to correctly assess his medical condition. The man was in immense pain for a number of weeks and could not walk with the pain. Two GPs visited him at his home on consecutive days however he eventually passed away...
Terminal prostate cancer patients not being offered enough support
Over 30,000 men in Britain are living with terminal prostate cancer, a charity has warned, but concerns have been raised that patients are not being offered enough support. Macmillan Cancer Support said the figure is a third greater than the number of people suffering...
D’Mello patients diagnosed with hepatitis C
Five patients of a dentist investigated for poor hygiene have diagnosed with hepatitis C, the BBC reported earlier today (17th March). Desmond D'Mello neither changed equipment between treatments nor washed his hands whilst working at the former Daybrook Dental...
Clear Law backs calls for pharmacists to assist GPs
Clear Law is backing calls by leading health professionals for pharmacists to step in and help treat patients at GP practices across England. The move would ‘help ease GP pressure’ and see pharmacists helping patients directly with common ailments, reports the BBC....
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NHS Trust fined £200,000 for patient’s death fall
The Royal United hospital (Bath) NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £200,000 after a patient fell to his death from the window in his room. Bristol Crown Court heard how an in-patient on the hospital’s Haygarth Ward had become confused during his stay at the facility...
hospital Negligence led to dementia patient’s death
An NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £366,000 after a patient was found dead on one of its specialist dementia wards. Mrs Joan Darnell, a 78 year-old lady from Norfolk who suffered from dementia had been admitted to the Julian hospital at the end of September 2014,...
Council fined £25,000 after vulnerable man choked to death
Shropshire Council has been fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £40,000 after a vulnerable man choked to death while in the care of one of the Council’s day centres. Shrewsbury Crown Court heard how Michael Breeze, aged 53, who suffered from learning...