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10,000 die needlessly each year in UK hospitals

10,000 die needlessly each year in UK hospitals The health watchdog, the NHS Litigation Authority [Stu's view: it makes you despondent that such an organisation exists - they even have their own website] believe that in 2010 10,000 people died nee...
 

Calls to increase number of blood tests to identify ovarian cancer

Calls to increase number of blood tests to identify ovarian cancer About 4,400 women die each year in the UK as a result of ovarian cancer which equates to ‘one death every two hours’ as the Daily Telegraph not so cheerfully puts it.  Figures in The Lanc...
 

Dr Philipp Bonhoeffer suspended over child abuse claims

Dr Philipp Bonhoeffer suspended over child abuse claims One of Britain’s most eminent paediatric surgeons, Dr Philipp Bonhoeffer, has been suspended from the medical register over allegations of abusing children.  The “internationally renowned...
 

Free extra with chicken packaging – food poisoning

Free extra with chicken packaging – food poisoning You know when you hear a story and intuitively you feel ‘ that sound’s right’.  Yes, well, that’s how I felt when the Daily Telegraph ran a story about the outside of the pa...