Nearly 1,200 people have starved to death in NHS hospitals because ‘nurses are too busy to feed patients’

Vulnerable Martin Ryan starved to death in an NHS hospital after 26 days without proper nourishment

As many as 1,165 people starved to death in  NHS hospitals over the past four years fuelling claims nurses are too busy to  feed their patients. The Department of Health branded the figures  ‘unacceptable’ and said the number of unannounced … Continue reading

Hospital hired me to fiddle death figures: Expert claims NHS ordered cover-up

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  A whistleblower claimed last night that she  was hired by an NHS hospital to fiddle its shocking death rates. As hundreds of patients died needlessly,  Sandra Haynes Kirkbright says she was headhunted by hospital bosses and asked to  ‘fix’ … Continue reading

Thousands protest against Lewisham hospital cuts

Nurses protest against the proposed cuts at Lewisham hospital

Demonstrators call on government to stop planned closure of A&E department and downgrading of maternity ward Thousands of protesters have marched through south-east London to demand that the government stops the planned closure of a hospital’s accident and emergency department … Continue reading

Patient, 62, to sue hospital after claiming ‘bossy nurse forced him to walk 23 MILES home after discharging him at 2am on New Year’s Day’

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A 62-year-old hospital patient who was  suffering with breathing difficulties was told he would have to walk 23 miles  home after being discharged in the middle of the night. Peter Rees was rushed to West Wales General  Hospital in Carmarthen … Continue reading

NHS doctors to be forced to work weekends for the first time in push for improved seven-day a week care

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I have always been totally gobsmacked that Hospitals seem to close down on weekends, Nurses, Porters, Technicians, Labs, Kitchens, X-Ray Dept and several other areas of the general hospital workforce yet Consultants appear to be a different breed of human being. … Continue reading

Hospital beds nearly all occupied, say government figures

A nurse and patient at North Middlesex University hospital in London

Around 94% of hospital beds were occupied last month, well above the 85% limit that doctors regard as necessary to maintain safe, good quality care, government figures reveal. The statistics, which show that many hospitals had only a handful of … Continue reading

Ministers order an inquiry into the care pathway payments that saw hospitals receive millions to implement controversial system

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Ministers yesterday ordered an  independent  inquiry into why hospitals have been paid to hit targets for numbers of patients  dying on the Liverpool Care Pathway. The new investigation will examine how hospitals have received tens of millions of pounds to … Continue reading

First NHS trust run entirely by private firm racks up £4m debt in just six months

Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire was taken over by Circle in February

The UK’s first privately run NHS hospital  generated a deficit more than twice as high than planned, it emerged today. Circle, the company in charge of  Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust in Cambridgeshire, had projected that the Trust  would be in … Continue reading

Parents’ horror after daughter, 12, lay dead in NHS hospital for so long that rigor mortis had set in

12 year old Emma Stones

“It is now becoming clearer, If you’re in anyway disabled you stand a high chance of being neglected or abused in our NHS Hospital system, the poor child had Cerebral Palsy so the staff put her in a side room and left her … Continue reading