A 92-year-old man suffered a heart attack and died after a doctor gave him a drugs overdose, an inquest has heard. Walter Kenneth Johnston was injected with 100 times the correct dose of insulin by a junior doctor at Belfast City Hospital who claimed he did not know how to treat him.
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The appointment of five members to work with Lord Sutherland on his Independent Review of Free Personal Care have been confirmed. Anne Jarvie, Mary Marshall, Professor David Bell, Jim Dickie and Rory Mair have accepted an invitation from Nicola Sturgeon to sit on the independent review group.
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The number of cases dealt with by the District Court increased by 10% last year. Of the thousands of cases each year, many are passed onto higher courts such as the Circuit Court or in the case of murder or rape, the Central Criminal Court.
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New childcare regulations come into force today, which will reduce the number of children a childminder can care for. The Childcare Pre-School Services Regulations were signed into law in 2006, but only take effect from today.
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Ths NHS in Wales paid out more than £1m a week in compensation to victims of medical blunders. Details of NHS trust accounts, released under the Freedom of Information Act by the Welsh Assembly Government, indicate that more than £53m in clinical negligence payments have been made in the last financial year.
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Patients are regularly waiting more than 50 minutes in ambulances outside south east Wales accident and emergency units, BBC Wales has revealed. In February, there were delays at two hospitals because of a high volume of 999 calls and a shortage of beds.
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The family of a grandmother who fell and died after being left unattended at a nursing home was furious after being sent a £1,200 bill for her care. Dementia sufferer Olive Hitchings, 85, tumbled from her wheelchair and broke her leg just ten days after moving into the nursing home.
{mosimage}Riversway Nursing Home in Bristol was accused of ‘nelgect’ by council investigators and her family say she should not have been left alone and should have been belted into her chair to stop her standing up.
Her outraged son Anthony, 59, said he was disgusted the home is charging them, despite being at fault. Anthony, from Kingswood, Bristol, said: “They’ll get the money over my dead body. “It’s a pretty bitter pill to swallow because if this accident hadn’t taken place, my mother would probably still be alive today.
“I’m not going to phone and ask them to waive the payment – people need to know what happened at the home. I shouldn’t have to ring them because they neglected my mother. It’s not about the fact of having the money, because that is available to us.”
Olive, a former cleaner and bookmakers’ employee, moved to the home in early April following an 11-week spell in Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. Her family say she lost had her mobility and was forced to use a wheelchair.
She suffered the fall ten days later and was taken back to Frenchay Hospital, where she died two days later. The 66-bed nursing home was warned to make improvements to its practices after a meeting held to investigate the complaints. The meeting was attended by Riversway manager Angela Glover; Jill Cornelius, an inspector for the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and Kate Spreadbury, Bristol City Council’s safeguarding adults co-ordinator.
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The quality of Dorset’s mental health services was revealed in a new survey. The Healthcare Comm-ission asked NHS users about their experiences as part of a national survey. It covered such areas as treatment, relationship with psychiatrists and out-of-hours care.
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Children with asthma are missing out on the best drug treatment for their disease, because family doctors are ignoring prescribing guidelines, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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An official report into Britain’s mental health services will warn tomorrow that there are significant gaps in care offered round the country. Many patients do not receive the quick and effective treatment they need.
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