Archive for the ‘NHS’ Category
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel has heard of Jean Ndubeze’s time as a nurse at a hospital in Hackney, east London and is ruling on a catalogue of errors including a time when Miss Ndubeze had failed to spot that one of the patients had died. A sister on ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2012
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has said that doctors need to be identifying dying patients much earlier than is currently the case to ensure they are consulted about the care they want to receive when the time comes.
The RCP’s working party on improving end of life care, says that ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is to launch an inquiry into concerns that thousands of British patients may have been poisoned by their metal hip replacements.
An investigation by a Sunday newspaper revealed that 30,000 people in this country have had the implants which can cause problems when ...
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Saturday, March 17th, 2012
There has been much written about the problem of bedsores among the elderly and the frail with reports recently suggesting that 75 patients every day are dying from conditions such as pressure sores and infected wounds, up 50% on the figures for 10 years earlier. So it is a significant ...
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012
The latest figures show that death rates are up to 20% higher at a weekend than a weekday at some UK hospitals, so is it really more dangerous to fall ill on a weekend and if so, what can be done to remedy the problem?
The health secretary Andrew Lansley says ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Following on from news that the government is providing more extra funding for the NHS Litigation Authority to pay out on compensation claims, there are stories weekly on the payouts which are being made and the circumstances surrounding them. One such case saw a 300,000 claim pursued against Plymouth Hospitals ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
The British Medical Association (BMA) has issued a warning over proposals which may lead to the privatisation of the NHS Litigation Authority, which pays out legal fees and compensation claims in medical negligence cases in which the NHS is involved.
Documents received under the Freedom of Information act show that the ...
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