‘Scandal’ Of Payoff To Patient-Safety Chiefs
Two senior officials at the government agency meant to safeguard patient safety in the NHS have cost the taxpayer more than £640,000 in early retirement payments, ministers have admitted.
Read MoreTwo senior officials at the government agency meant to safeguard patient safety in the NHS have cost the taxpayer more than £640,000 in early retirement payments, ministers have admitted.
Read MorePlaying chess, reading newspapers and engaging the brain in other tasks can significantly reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in later life, according to a study.
Read MoreA hospital department head who threw herself to her death from a 100ft motorway bridge was driven to suicide by NHS reforms, an inquest was told yesterday. Morag Wilson, 32, a manager at Wythenshawe hospital, stabbed herself with a kitchen knife before jumping from the M60 into the Manchester ship canal.
Read MorePatricia Hewitt will not be health secretary in new Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s first Cabinet.
Read MorePolice have seized more than £12m of heroin in one of the biggest drug raids in Scottish history.
Read MoreA growing number of attacks on Polish bar workers is being blamed for race hate crimes rising to record levels in Edinburgh.
Read MoreA Sheriff yesterday criticised the Home Office for not deporting a failed asylum seeker who was later caught handling a record haul of raw opium.
Read MoreA public consultation will be held into plans to exhume hundreds of bodies from a graveyard in Omagh in order to make way for a new hospital building. Health Minister Michael McGimpsey said the Western Health and Social Care Trust was handling the issue as sensitively as possible.
Read MoreUlster sufferers of an eye disease are being left to go blind because of indecision among health chiefs on whether to fund new sight-saving drugs, two charities have warned. The grim warning was delivered ahead of a public meeting in Belfast to highlight concerns for those diagnosed from wet age-related macular degeneration.
Read MoreThere have been demands for extra security measures at hospitals after it emerged more than 1,000 assaults were launched on hospital staff in Belfast last year.
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