Adverse events in hospital are common

Medical error: One in 10 harmed by mistakes in hospital

One in 10 people admitted to a hospital in Britain will be injured or harmed because of a mistake by the staff, and 40,000 die every year as a consequ...

Medical mistakes: Who's paying?

Errors in hospitals have become so commonplace that health insurers in the US are stopping payments for a range of avoidable mistakes.

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...