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Mar 2015
An investigation into Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has ruled that the unnecessary deaths of 11 babies and one mother at Furness General Hospital came about from a ‘lethal mix’ of failures. The investigation found 20 major failures in care from 2004 to 2013 at the hospital, calling the incidents “serious and shocking”. The wider…
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Feb 2015
A major consultation has found that there is strong support for recommendations to handle the minority of doctors who cause patients harm or put them at significant risk. Over 2,000 people answered the consultation, including patients, doctors and other health service professionals. The GMC had consulted with the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Services (MPTS) who determine…
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Feb 2015
According to the health regulator Monitor, more than 50% of all foundation trusts in England are now in the red. Monitor’s quarterly report, which looked at 147 trusts in the last quarter of 2014, said that hiring expensive agency staff was having a significant impact on their budgets. The report found that the deficit of…
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Feb 2015
Official figures have shown that throughout the whole of 2014, a key cancer target has been missed by the NHS. Even though a minimum of 85% of patients should begin treatment within 62 days of a GP referral, the target was missed in each quarter of the year, with just 83.8% were treated within time…
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Feb 2015
A study piloted in Denmark has suggested that inducing babies at 37 weeks can lower the risk of the baby dying or developing a serious health condition, such as cerebral palsy. The research which was conducted over a 13 year period, and which analysed 770,926 births, found that there was a drop of 26 per…
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Feb 2015
The Care Quality Commission has made profound changes to the method in which it inspects hospitals since the report on the unacceptable care at Mid Staffordshire by Sir Robert Francis. When Hard Truths was published in January 2014, most of the improvements had been put in place. A new Chief Inspector of Hospitals had been…
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