Hospital errors: - Lawsuits mean fewer admissions of mistakes - We all know that our hospitals are no place to be if you're sick. Overworked staff who are deprived of sleep are so error-prone that a hospital is on...

Hospital errors: - Not many dead - What's the difference between 840 and 40,000? An awful lot of liability insurance payments. New research into errors in UK hospitals has put the ann...

Transfusion errors in hospital labs - In WDDTY vol 5 no 4, , we reported that a third of people in Britain are given the wrong blood for transfusion. ...

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Hospitals: 1 in 6 killed or injured - Your chances of dying in hospital, or suffering some injury while there, stand at around 16 per cent. Half this risk is due to doctor or hospital erro...

Heart attack: What can happen to you 12 months later - There’s one thing that may very well happen to you if you suffer a heart attack, and it’s something doctors almost never warn you about.

Hospitals: They’re as dangerous as mines and factories, commission says - Hospitals are as dangerous as mines and factories, a special commission into hospital health and hygiene has reported. Lessons aren’t being learned, a...

News hospital audits - Nearly one million errors each year - First, the bad news. New estimates suggest that more than 2000 people die in UK hospitals every year as a direct result of staff errors. The far w...