Clinical Negligence and Medical Accidents
- GP denies killing allergy patient >>
- NHS could allow top-up payments for costly cancer drugs >>
- Kidney cancer patients shocked by NICE decision >>
- Pest control problems question hospital hygiene >>
- Four year old girl disabled from hospital negligence >>
- Doctors ice treatment errors put patients at risk >>
- Man suffers broken ankle and LOSES a leg after doctors make plaster cast too tight >>
- "Rusty" surgeon's operation blunder costs naval officer career >>
- Compensation awarded after repeated misdiagnose of fracture >>
- Breast cancer surgeon accused of botched operations >>
- Junior doctor's blunder major factor in patient's death >>
- Hospital bug deaths investigated >>
- Catastrophic armed forces injuries on the rise >>
- Bristol maternity care review after birth injury incidents >>
- Fears of prescribing errors after new rules introduced >>
- Health watchdog blames botched operations on poor vetting of foreign doctors >>
- Mother's £5.2m victory in struggle to care for disabled son >>
- Hospital doctor cleared after hastening babies' deaths >>
- Medical errors from Patient hospital wristbands >>
- Midwives found negligent after baby suffocates >>
- Tragedy caused by simple medical error >>
- Meningitis misdiagnosis results in infant death >>
- Faulty pregnancy tests could endanger babies >>
- Fears out of hours GP system fails patients >>
- Blood transfusion error investigation >>
- Blood clots kill 25,000 a year >>
- Nurse's error leaves blood donor with nerve damage >>
- Lapse maternity care left baby girl handicapped - Panorama investigates >>
- Airmen killed in action received home in wrong coffin >>
- Calls for better Botox regulation >>
- Hospitals urged to battle superbugs >>
- Teenager's brain abscess misdiagnosed >>
- Husband-to-be suffers stroke from bad plastic surgery >>
- GMC investigates prescribing errors >>
- Medical errors cause elderly lady to die from broken leg >>
- Thousands of lives lost to blood clots >>
- Victims of blood contamination call for compensation >>
- Nuclear workers organ removal inquiry >>
- Lack of qualified paramedics is the death of patients >>
- Baby dies following midwives errors >>
- Botched Knee Op patients speak out at their disgust >>
- Dirty surgical equipment halts operations >>
- Patient left her bed to go to the toilet but returned to find it taken >>
- Plea to save armed forces hospitals >>
- Injury victims voice their stories >>
- Devon psychiatrist accused of manslaughter >>
- Surgeon's notes failed to report fatal weakness >>
- Leading IVF centre investigated by BBC >>
- "Special Measures" hospital closes >>
- Son wins landmark case against the NHS for mother's care costs >>
- Private hospitals don't stand up to checks >>
- Mother dies after operation injury goes unnoticed >>
- British Hospitals starving elderly >>
- Hospitals alert for new fast strain of MRSA >>
- Concerns over hearing aids wait >>
- MRSA compensation claims >>
- Royal Marine dies after medical blunder >>
- Backlog of nursing complaints put patients at risk >>
- Deadly toll of unsafe abortions >>
- Woman died in agony because doctor failed to order brain scan >>
- Doctor covers up breast cancer misdiagnosis >>
- South West NHS Trusts receive in excess of 9,000 complaints >>
- Disabled and terminally-ill children missing out on vital equipment >>
- Killer's psychiatric care "appalling" >>
- Unexplained death following surgery at Britain's largest hospital >>
- Patients at risk from Pill Crushing >>
- Patients with tissue and bone implants from corpses awaiting tests >>
- Routine operation leaves man with deformed arm >>
- Doctors failed to monitor elderly man leaving him with a permanent disability. >>
- Breast Cancer cases rise >>
- Parents of stillborn baby urge better maternity care >>
- South West Hospitals in "Stolen Bones" scandal >>
- Doctor's failure to diagnose staphylococcus infection "hugely regrettable" >>
- Hygiene falls below standard at 52 NHS hospitals >>
- Somerset doctor mis-diagnoses deep vein thrombosis >>
- Swansea hospital complaints climb by 35% >>
- Brain cyst misdiagnosed as a migraine >>
- Unresolved complaints leave patients and relatives in limbo >>
- Misdiagnosis of Crohn's disease ends in surgery >>
- Hospital negligence leaves elderly patients malnourished >>
- All transport could cause Deep Vein Thrombosis >>
- Maternity Unit responsible for deaths of 10 women >>
- Medication errors for one in five young leukaemia sufferers >>
- Bond Pearce "gets adventurous" to raise money for St Lukes hospice >>
- Calls to scrap doctor's regulatory body >>
- Patients life threatening conditions missed. >>
- Patients at risk from drug prescribing errors. >>
- Woman dies after IVF treatment >>
- Lung cancer patients wrongly given the all clear >>
- Lessons learnt from surgical error >>
- Long delays for allergy sufferers >>
- MS sufferers still undergoing delays in diagnosis >>
- Cancer drug causes ongoing heart damage >>
- Drug prescribing errors are putting patients at risk >>
- Mental Health Report raises concerns over patient safety >>
- Fears of widespread institutional abuse in Cornwall >>
- Stroke patients receive substandard care by the NHS >>
- Doctors will face tighter competency checks >>
- Poor intensive baby care in the UK >>
- Complaints against negligent doctors soar >>
- 20 babies a year die at midwife led birth centres >>
- Euthanasia to be reviewed by doctors >>
- Death of Baby Could Have Been Avoided >>
