Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

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...

Patients at risk from old anaesthetic machines - The lives of thousands of patients may be at risk because UK hospitals are failing to replace old and undependable anaesthetic machines.

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...

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...

Sleep aid linked to cognitive decline in elderly - Among elderly hospitalised patients, diphenhydramine given to aid sleep comes with an increased risk of delirium and other adverse events.

Emergency care: - It's so bad that it kills a third of patients - The health service is seriously overstretched. Patients with chronic conditions that require routine care tend to get the worst of it, so perhaps the...

The access to records act - The Patient's Access to Records' Act has been trumpeted by the DOH as giving patients "full access to their health records." It imposes a "duty on al...