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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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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