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“In 2007 the charity revealed that six patients had died unnecessarily in hospital.”
“Mencap's survey found that almost half of health care professionals have not been trained in how to make reasonable adjustments for patients which, according to the charity, can often mean the difference between life and death.”
“Mencap director, Maureen Piggott said there are nine specific actions that will make a difference.”
“But Mencap's survey found that almost half of health care professionals have not been trained in how to make reasonable adjustments for patients which, according to the charity, can often mean the difference between life and death.”
“A woman in her 40s and a man in his late 30s, who were rescued from the rubble, are being treated for serious multiple injuries, including burns.”
“Police confirmed two children, aged 10 and 13, were taken to hospital, although they were not injured.”
“A 48-year-old man has died in hospital after he collapsed while taking part in the London to Brighton bike ride.”
“Ambulance staff resuscitated Gary Allen after he collapsed going up Ditchling Beacon, outside Brighton, at 1340 BST on Sunday.”
“the BBC's Chris Hogg in Shanghai says that six of those rescued were badly burned and in a critical condition”
“The cost to NHS Highland in treating a type of hip fracture caused by people falling ran to more than £11m last year, it has been revealed.”
“The health board has estimated that 20,000 people in its area are hurt in falls each year - half of them aged 80 and over.”
“NHS Highland looked at the cost of treating 28 cases of neck of femur fractures, a type of hip injury, at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness each month last year.”
“It said the conservative estimate for the hospital care ran to £5.1m.”
“Once out of hospital, the cost of additional GP appointments, rehabilitation and social services support was about £6.2m.”
“To reduce the number of people being injured, NHS Highland, along with other public bodies, will carry out fall risk assessments of thousands of older people.”
“Falls among elderly people may be costing the NHS in England up to £4.6m a day, a charity has warned.”
“Age UK, which combines Age Concern and Help the Aged, says up to one in three people aged 65 and over fall each year.”
“Falls are a major cause of injury and death among the over 70s and account for more than 50% of hospital admissions for accidental injury.”
“The commonest injury amongst elderly people who fall is a hip fracture, with 60,000 elderly people experiencing the injury each year.”
“Age UK says evidence has shown if elderly people take part in exercise programmes specifically designed to improve strength and balance, the risk of falls can be cut by up to 55%.”
“But the charity says one in five older people admit they cannot remember the last time they did any exercise.”
“Despite costing the NHS £1.7 billion per year, the issue of people in later life falling over is all too often dismissed as an inevitable part of the ageing process.”
“The BBC has learned that a review commissioned by Mr Cameron is likely to suggest that GPs contact war veterans to assess whether they are suffering from mental health problems brought on by their military service.”
“Meanwhile, the BBC's Politics Show has learned that the review into the mental health of former service personnel may also recommend placing specially-trained psychiatric nurses in every mental health trust in the country.”
“The ongoing review, conducted by the Conservative MP Andrew Murrison, is examining how best to protect the mental health of Britain's serving troops and veterans.”
“The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (Gavi) says it needs more than $4bn (£3bn) by 2015.”
“Many developing countries now have, with foreign assistance, built up the infrastructure so that routine immunisations can now be offered to up to 80% of the world's poorest children.”
“Gavi, a public-private partnership which draws together organisations including the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the vaccine industry, is now trying to secure funding for 15 countries to a…”
“"Without this funding for immunisation, the world will not reach Millennium Goal 4 to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds by 2015," she said.”
“Gavi estimates that secures the funding it could immunise 240m children by 2015, four million deaths could be prevented - including one million from pneumococcal disease and rotavirus.”
“About 60% of Italians regularly eat mozzarella, statistics suggest”
“A batch of about 70,000 mozzarella balls which turned blue upon opening has been confiscated by food authorities in Italy, officials say.”
“The health ministry said it had activated the European "rapid alert" system to warn of possible contamination, and announced emergency control measures on the cheese.”
“About 60% of Italians regularly eat the soft, white cheese, according to the Italian farmers' group, Coldiretti.”
“Health Minister Ferruccio Fazio alerted German authorities and the European Commission about the possible contamination.”
“Initial tests at an institute in Turin found the colouring to be caused by a bacterium, rather than toxic contamination, AFP reported.”
“for giving excessive morphine to 18 dying patients.”
“in two cases, he hastened the deaths of patients without their permission.”
“when he was dying from cancer in May 1988.”
“qualified in 1958”
“three decades spent as a GP”
“without the consent of two patients”
“some of the 18 patients”
“I twice helped people die, not because they wanted to die but because they had such dreadful suffering. Everyone else wanted to [die] - they could make that choice.”
“He was struck off by the General Medical Council for giving excessive morphine to 18 dying patients.”
“The GMC's fitness to practise hearing in Manchester centred on the deaths of patients between 1994 and 2004 at surgeries in Newton Aycliffe, Shildon and Eldon.”
“One of those who he gave a final injection to was his son, Paul, 31, when he was dying from cancer in May 1988.”
“Friday's GMC disciplinary panel found Dr Martin had not acted negligently, but it did say he had 'violated the rights of the terminally ill' and the retired 75-year-old was struck off for 'completely unacceptable' treatment of some patient…”
“GMC panel chairman Professor Brian Gomes da Costa said: 'Dr Martin's decisions to administer large doses of strong pain-killing drugs were made on the scantiest of evidence. There were many occasions when there was no clinical indication t…”
“Dr Martin, a former Army doctor and police surgeon who qualified in 1958, said that during his three decades spent as a GP he had not hidden his views.”
“Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said he was horrified and there was no excuse for hastening patients' deaths.”
“BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said Dr Martin's admission that he acted without the consent of two patients meant that he was unlikely to win support even among those who want to legalise assisted dying.”
“In 2006, the British Medical Association voted by an overwhelming majority against legalising physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.”
“Dr Howard Martin says he hastened two people's deaths without permission”
“Dr Michael Irwin, 79, of Surrey, has asked Crown Prosecution Service to charge him after he took a man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.”
“Up to 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking water in recent decades, according to a Lancet study.”
“The research assessed nearly 12,000 people in a district of the capital Dhaka for over a period of 10 years.”
“More than 20% of deaths among those assessed were caused by the naturally occurring poisonous element, it found.”
“The NHS says there are now more than 20 BreastStart support groups in Lincolnshire as well as two baby cafes.”
“On Wednesday, 12 mothers will be presented with certificates for completing a training course to give support to other women in Boston.”
“Women who breastfeed their child are protecting them from childhood diabetes, obesity and asthma, and reducing their risk of breast and ovarian cancer.”
“The peer, who served as a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, said the NHS had paid out £8bn in five years - only a third of which went to claimants, the rest to lawyers and claims companies.”
“He said that under current laws "the firemen could say they wouldn't go to a fire because it was too dangerous". "We've just got to get sense back into the system," he added. Lord Young told the Times there had been "three instances of pol…”
“Lord Young said there were "children dying because of health and safety".”
“the man was taken to St Thomas' Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries”
“Five people were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at a house in Newport on Saturday morning.”
“He received precautionary oxygen therapy from paramedics at the scene after the fire involving his grill pan and frying pan.”
“More than 10,000 people who took part in an overnight walk through Edinburgh are hoping to raise more than £3m for breast cancer research and care.”
“Recent projects in Scotland which have benefited from Walk the Walk events include donations towards a £2.1m Maggie's centre at Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow”
“and funding for the Breast Cancer Institute at The Western Infirmary.”
“But Mr Gittins could have gone on to recover had Dr Martin not intervened with 200mg of diamorphine, a General Medical Council hearing was told.”
“Among them was 74-year-old oesophageal cancer sufferer Harry Gittins who died on 22 January 2004.”
“The doctor then gave him a dose of morphine which left him unconscious for the rest of the day, said Mr Gittins.”
“That evening the doctor returned to say his father would die that night, he added.”
“A retired family doctor has been struck off the medical register after giving excessively high doses of morphine to 18 patients.”
“Last year, the charity spent nearly a million pounds supporting some of the orphanages which look after the estimated 160,000 children who've lost one or both parents to the disease”
“Last year, the charity spent nearly a million pounds supporting some of the orphanages which look after the estimated 160,000 children who've lost one or both parents to the disease and paying the running costs of seven schools for childre…”
“a 33-year-old man is being treated for breathing in smoke.”
“A special service in honour of more than 200 people who donated their bodies to medical science in the 1960s and 1970s has been held.”
“Rachel Griffin died after a double lung transplant on 21 May [...] She died on 21 May.”
“Mrs Griffin said her daughter's condition deteriorated and she asked to be put on the transplant list in 2005. She was assessed and put on the list two years later.”
“Rachel received a call in the early hours of 13 April, telling her to go to Wythenshawe as soon as possible as lungs had become available.”
“before she was rushed into theatre to undergo the eight-hour transplant operation.”
“But after about 10 days her condition deteriorated. She was put into a ventilator and later on an ECMO machine [...] But, despite their efforts, Rachel died a few days later.”
“Ms Scott was given the lungs of an individual who it subsequently transpired had smoked for 30 years, although there is no suggestion that contributed to her death.”
“But they said all patients undergo rigorous assessments before they are put on the transplant list.”
“We do not divulge personal information about the donor in accordance with national guidance on patient confidentiality.”
“More than 30,000 women give birth in Wales every year”
“It examined work at 12 NHS trusts and the Powys local health board during 2007 and 2008.”
“nearly a third felt they were 'not always treated with kindness and understanding' during postnatal care.”
“eight NHS trusts, at the time of the audit, were failing to meet the recommended staffing levels for midwives.”
“for giving excessive morphine doses to 18 dying patients.”
“the 75-year-old was struck off”
“I twice helped people die”
“Paul, 31”
“three decades”
“between 1994 and 2004”
“The now retired County Durham GP was struck off on Friday by the General Medical Council for giving excessive morphine doses to 18 dying patients.”
“Friday's GMC disciplinary panel found he had not acted negligently, but it did say he had 'violated the rights of the terminally ill' and the 75-year-old was struck off for 'completely unacceptable' treatment of some patients.”
“Dr Martin told the Telegraph that, in two cases, he hastened the deaths of patients without their permission.”
