Warnings that people should thoroughly wash fruit and vegetables
have been prompted by an E Coli
outbreak, amid fears the bacteria had contaminated soil.
About 250 people suffered with diarrhoea ...
The nursing care provided to a patient with severe learning
difficulties during his spell in hospital has been described as
"dire" by the Public Services Ombudsman for
Wales .
According to the wat...
Women pregnant with twins or triplets are more likely to
experience complications and should therefore be given more scans
and have specialist teams attending to their care before, during
and after b...
An increase in the number of unregulated healthcare assistants
working in British hospitals could see wards become a "ghastly
national disaster", a nursing regulator has said.
The Nursing and Midwi...
A maintenance contractor has been ordered to pay £155,000
following the death of a worker at a power station.
The worker drowned when he fell into a water-filled sump at
a power station.
Th...
Patients in London who are admitted to hospital on a weekend are
far more likely to die than those who are treated during the week,
figures show.
A shortage of hospital consultants covering weekend...
The parents of a baby who died nine days after she was starved
of oxygen at birth have said they want an investigation
into why it happened.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is being urged to find...
The Legal 500, the leading legal directory,
has ranked the clinical negligence team in band 1 in their 2011
directory.
The new rankings, released on 21 September,
put Field Fisher Waterhouse in the...
A surgeon conducting a routine hip operation on a 51-year-old
woman accidentally severed her sciatic nerve, leaving her
permanently disabled.
Maggie Peabody, from Wood End in Coventry, was admitted...
A married couple plan to the sue the NHS over
medical negligence after the wife suffered a series of problems
following childbirth.
Philippa Walker, of Bournemouth, bled for four hours when her
...