Infection
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A Medical Negligence solicitor at Ashtons Legal has obtained a five-figure settlement for the family of Mr K, a vulnerable man who died from flu after a Norfolk hospital failed...
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An inquest has begun into the death of a 20-year-old woman who died from sepsis following a routine appendix operation. Chloe Rideout first attended Derriford Hospital in Plymouth after she...
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An A&E department has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after it was found to have significant delays in admitting and discharging patients, poor infection risk control...
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Rachel Johnston, a ‘happy and alert’ disabled woman, died after having all her teeth removed, an inquest heard. Ms Johnston, 49, had to have all of her teeth removed as...
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An inquest has found that ‘shocking’ mistakes contributed to the death of a baby at the Queen’s Medical Centre in 2018. Kaylan Coates, son of Hayley Coates, suffered a fractured...
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Machines that are able to detect sepsis are being installed at a children’s hospital in Scotland. The monitors, which have been fitted at Royal Hospital for Children, in Glasgow, are...
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Two patients became seriously ill and one patient died after receiving organs that had been contaminated with a fungal infection after the surgeon failed to disclose that when he was...
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Despite a 17% drop in antibiotic prescriptions given out by GPs over the last five years, the number of antibiotic-resistant infections continues to rise. Public Health England encourages GPs and...
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A new strain of toxin producing group A streptococcus is spreading across England and Wales. Strep A causes many different infections – ranging from a sore throat to scarlet fever....
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It has been reported that thousands of patients a year are having their lives put at risk due to their sepsis not being treated quickly enough. As soon as sepsis...
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