“An independent inquiry into the deaths of dozens of elderly patients given ‘life-shortening’ powerful painkillers at a Hampshire hospital will be announced by ministers within weeks.”
The Independent, 8th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Association of Chief Police Officers says dealing with mentally ill people takes up a fifth of police time. Police can detain people where no crime has been committed but they suspect the person is mentally unwell. The temporary police power is called a section 136.”
BBC News, 9th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of a man who never regained consciousness after being restrained by police has won a legal battle to reopen an inquiry to examine the role of 11 officers in his death.”
The Independent, 3rd September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Mid Staffs NHS foundation trust, castigated for providing appalling care for years to patients, is to be prosecuted over a diabetic patient who died after falling into a diabetic coma – an unprecedented change in criminal accountability in the health service.”
The Guardian, 29th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Basic failings which put lives at risk have been laid bare in reports into 11 NHS hospital trusts after they were officially warned to improve or face closure.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The House of Commons Health Committee has published a report (PDF) following its inquiries into the Mental Health Act 2007. The MHA 2007 introduced several amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA, as amended), some of which were very controversial at the time and continue to be so now. The Health Committee’s report follows post-legislative scrutiny of the legislation by its parent department.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Pressure on psychiatric wards has become so great that doctors are sectioning mentally ill patients unnecessarily, because it is often seen as the only way to gain access to a bed, MPs have found.”
The Independent, 14th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An undisclosed settlement has been paid by a health trust to the family of a woman who died after a hospital failed to treat her diabetes.”
BBC News, 13th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Review says NHS staff responsible for ‘recklessness or wilful neglect’ of patient safety should face jail.”
The Independent, 6th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Related link: Improving the Safety of Patients in England (PDF)
“The words ‘the trust’ in sections 65F(1), 65I(1) and 65K(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006, as inserted, meant the particular failing trust to which a Trust Special Administrator had been appointed and not any other NHS trust.”
WLR Daily, 31st July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Health watchdogs will be given powers to take action against hospitals that allow private companies to roam NHS maternity wards bombarding mothers with marketing material, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.”
The Independent, 4th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has had his decision to reduce services at a major hospital declared unlawful and quashed by the high court.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An NHS trust is fighting a court battle to sterilise a man with moderate learning difficulties.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A thief who stole from dying hospital patients, including one who was terminally ill with cancer, has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government spent £6m on submitting evidence to the Francis inquiry into Stafford Hospital failings, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The NHS care watchdog is abandoning its discredited way of inspecting hospitals and instead plans to use much larger teams of inspectors, including patients, to do in-depth investigations ‘lasting more than a week. ‘ ”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Keogh Report’s findings on 14 hospitals reveal that NHS failings of care claimed thousands of lives, including that of a man due to be married and a newborn baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An NHS body has been issued with a £200,000 fine for failing to ensure that sensitive medical information about thousands of patients were deleted from old computers that were sold online.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A public inquiry has been demanded into the use of anti-psychotic drugs after an investigation revealed that side-effects from such medication probably played a part in the deaths, in quick succession, of four men on one hospital ward.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hospital and care home managers who allow neglect and abuse to take place on their watch could face criminal prosecution and unlimited fines under new Government plans designed to restore trust in the health service after a series of high profile NHS scandals.”
The Independent, 4th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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