A hospital in Nottingham has apologised to the family of a man with cancer who died after being sent home with pneumonia. 60-year-old Richard Sharp from Bilborough died about an hour after being sent home from Nottingham City Hospital with clea...
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Despite numerous complaints from members of the public, a doctor that was suspended in 2012 has been allowed to return to work. Dr Nagy Gabriel was suspended from the register after “patient safety concerns” were highlighted in an inquiry in Ma...
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has been forced to write to 357 patients after it was found that equipment at the hospital had not been cleaned properly. The letters informed the past patients that the machines used to clean their ...
Managers of West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven have warned that staff shortages are jeopardising the quality of care being provided to patients. Earlier this year, numerous junior doctors were withdrawn from the wards due to a lack of senio...
The NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been warned that gaps in their training for patients with tracheostomies could be putting lives at risk. A tracheostomy is a procedure whereby a tube is inserted into the windpipe (trachea) of a pati...
A report has found that delays in patients reaching A&E are seriously impacting the North East Ambulance Service. Within six months of last year there were a recorded 10,599 delays, with 196 being over two hours. This saw paramedics u...
A recent report into the deaths of five cancer patients at a hospital in Kent has found that the surgery team was “dysfunctional”. The review of the cancer unit at Maidstone Hospital - carried out by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) – actually too...
An NHS watchdog has found that not enough is being done by hospital staff to prevent the spread of infection. Around 300,000 patients in England develop an infection during their stay in an NHS hospital every year. Prof Gillian Leng from the Na...
An NHS trust faces investigation following the death of a patient who was being treated under critical care at Hereford County Hospital. The death of the patient came after a complaint had been made concerning the hospital’s medical and surgica...
England’s health watchdog chairman said that there is a ‘huge variation’ in the care provided by England’s hospitals, with some that “you would not want to go to as a patient”. David Prior said that the Care Quality Commision (CQC) was shocked ...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested that individual NHS trusts draw up plans to reduce the number of serious mistakes they make every year. He hopes to potentially halve the number of serious, and avoidable, mistakes made within the NHS,...
A pensioner from Nottingham had to wait five hours for an ambulance after the phone call was logged incorrectly. Stewart Maltby’s GP had been visiting Mr Matlby at his home in Farnsfield having recently suffered a stroke and abdominal surgery.&...
After a radiology specialist accidently cut an artery of a man suffering from high blood pressure, a coroner said that his death could have been “avoided”. 47-year-old Brian Galea, from Preston, was admitted to the Royal Preston Hospital on the 14th ...
An investigation has been launched into the death of a patient at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital after being given the ‘wrong gas’ during an operation. The investigation is being carried out by the hospital’s trust, which argues that the cau...
After the family of Margaret Pitt (55) were “let down so badly” by health workers at Alexandra Hospital, an undisclosed settlement has been paid out to Mrs. Pitt’s family. The nurses working in Alexandra Hospital – part of the Worcestershire Ac...
After receiving a poor local response, the United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust (ULHT) has been urged to recruit an increasing number of their nurses from overseas. This has stemmed from a recent review carried out by NHS England’s medical direct...
After Cheltenham’s accident and emergency unit suddenly closed last week, a Cotswold district councillor described the abrupt occurence as “deeply flawed”. As of August, all out-of-hours emergency cases are to go the Gloucestershire Royal – Glo...
A recent investigation has revealed a worrying relationship between the success of surgery, and the day of the week on which it is carried out. Researchers have taken all forms of surgery into account – from knee operations to transplants – and...
Health Secretary, Alex Neil, has initiated an improved care system for people suffering from chronic pain. Currently, sufferers have to travel great distances in order to get the help they need, as Scotland, up until now, has been unable to pro...
A family has been awarded compensation following the death of their son after two doctors failed to identify that he had contracted meningitis, reports the Telegraph.
Thirteen-month-old Bobby Bushell’s parents had taken him to Doncaster Royal Infirm...
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