£4m damages for ‘devoted’ mother – BBC News
“A mother who has devoted herself to her severely brain-damaged daughter for 29 years has been awarded £4.1m damages.”
BBC News, 24th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: hospitals
Throat cancer patient ‘starved to death’ after feeding tube blunder – The Times
“A hospital trust will have to pay damages after a patient who had undergone a successful operation for cancer was then inadvertently starved and poisoned to death.”
The Times, 15th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mentally ill man killed woman on mixed ward – Daily Telegraph
“An MP has demanded an inquiry into mixed wards after a paranoid schizophrenic admitted killing a female patient in the next bed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Unlawfully killed: the mother given fatal epidural dose minutes after birth – The Guardian
“The case of a new mother who was mistakenly given a fatal dose of a strong epidural anaesthetic will be re-examined by the Crown Prosecution Service after an inquest jury ruled yesterday that she was unlawfully killed.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge condemns mixed-sex wards – Daily Telegraph
“A judge condemned the Government’s failure to eradicate mixed-sex wards after jailing a man on Friday for a sex attack on an 82-year-old woman.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Mental Health Campaign: Families demand full inquests for deaths in secure hospitals – The Independent
“Hundreds of people with mental health problems are dying while detained in hospital but their deaths are not being fully investigated.”
The Independent, 27th Janaury 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Maternity units failing to meet guidelines – The Times
“More than four in ten maternity units in England offer poor or below average care, a report by the healthcare watchdog concludes today.”
The Times, 25th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Leslie Ash wins ‘£500,000’ in hospital superbug settlement – The Times
“The actress Leslie Ash is to receive more than £500,000 in compensation after she nearly died from a hospital superbug.”
The Times, 16th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
PM backs removal of body parts without consent – The Independent
“Gordon Brown is sympathetic to calls for hospitals to be allowed to remove organs from dead patients without explicit consent, but families would have a veto which would allow them to stop organs being used to save the lives of others if, as expected, the Government brings in a system of ‘presumed consent’.
The Independent, 14th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Times Law Reports
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Court of Appeal
“To establish that a hospital at which a suicide had been a detained mental patient was in breach of the right to life guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the claimant had to show that at the time of the suicide the hospital knew or ought to have known of the existence of a real and immediate risk to her life from self-harm and that it failed to take measures which reasonably might have been expected to avoid that risk.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Hospitals to pay for harming patients – The Times
“All hospitals should be fined if patients contract superbug infections or are harmed by medical errors while in their care, the Government’s Chief Medical Officer said yesterday.”
The Times, 14th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Inquiry clears heart hospital over deaths – The Guardian
“Heart transplants have been allowed to resume at one of the UK’s specialist hospitals following an investigation into a rise in the number of patient deaths, the Healthcare Commission said today.”
The Guardian, 20th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Superbug hospital will not face charges – Daily Telegraph
“A hospital responsible for a series of failings that led to a superbug outbreak which claimed 33 lives will not face criminal prosecution, it was announced yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
NHS complaint response “failing” – BBC News
“Patients are being let down by the way NHS trusts in England handle complaints, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 7th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Serial A&E user given an Asbo – The Guardian
“A man who faked drug overdoses so that he could use hospital A&E wards ‘like hotels’ has been given an Asbo restricting his access to health services.”
The Guardian, 29th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Alcohol law ‘trebles’ A&E visits – BBC News
“The introduction of 24-hour drinking laws may have trebled alcohol-related admissions to A&E departments in inner city areas at night, researchers say.”
BBC News, 18th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother wins damages over smothered daughter – The Times
“A grieving woman has urged midwives not to leave newborn babies in bed with their mothers after she fell asleep as a result of an anaesthetic and accidentally suffocated her daughter. Catherine Wrigley, 36, has been awarded an estimated £20,000 in damages after staff at St Peter’s Hospital, in Chertsey, Surrey, were found to have been negligent in leaving her alone with her daughter, Nancy, after delivery by Caesarean section.”
The Times, 10th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Yet another regulator to monitor care homes and trusts – The Times
“Underperforming NHS trusts and care homes face fines and closure under powers for a new health and social care watchdog, a leaked government document suggests.”
The Times, 8th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Rampton patient fights smoking ban at high security hospital – The Guardian
“Patients at Rampton high security psychiatric hospital, which houses some of the country’s most dangerous criminals, are challenging a smoking ban in a test case which claims the refusal to permit cigarettes in the hospital’s buildings or grounds violates their human rights.”
The Guardian, 28th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
