A healthcare charity has been fined £40,000 after failing to protect a vulnerable teenager who took her own life whilst in their care. Sophie Bennett, 19, was found hanged in a bathroom in Lancaster Lodge, a residential care home in Richmond, west London, in May 2016 – just over a year after she was admitted … Read more
A healthcare charity has been fined £40,000 after failing to protect a vulnerable teenager who took her own life whilst in their care. Sophie Bennett, 19, was found hanged in a bathroom in Lancaster Lodge, a residential care home in Richmond, west London, in May 2016 – just over a year after she was admitted … Read more
Missing patient with Brazilian Covid strain is FOUND: Passenger who flew into UK then vanished sparking frantic nationwide hunt and ‘surge testing’ is finally located after three weeks By Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: 15:37 GMT, 5 March 2021 | Updated: 15:49 GMT, 5 March 2021 The mystery person in Britain infected with the Brazil … Read more
Prostate cancer patient did not know doctor had financial link to new private treatment that he ‘strongly recommended’ to him, tribunal hears Consultant urologist Paul Miller, 62, accused of being ‘financially motivated’ Referred eight patients to undergo high intensity focused ultrasound (Hifu) The treatment uses high frequency sound waves to burn away cancer cells GMC argues conflict … Read more
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE BRAZIL VARIANT? Name: B.1.1.248 or P.1 Date: Discovered in Tokyo, Japan, in four travellers arriving from Manaus, Brazil, on January 2. Why should we care? The variant has the same spike protein mutation as the highly transmissible versions found in Kent and South Africa – named N501Y – which makes the … Read more
A family’s legal battle over the £350,000 will of a cancer patient who died after an ambulance taking him to hospital crashed has been branded ‘shameful’ by a High Court judge. Keith Fuller, 66, had incurable bladder and prostate cancer, but died from pneumonia caused by the crash in Ramsgate, Kent. His final will split … Read more
A senior GP who spiralled into drug abuse and ended up being caught driving high on cocaine has been struck off over an sexual relationship with a patient. Dr Fran Sanders, 47, pursued a ‘wholly inappropriate’ relationship with the man despite receiving warnings from colleagues and admitting ‘this is very bad practice’. The mother-of-two had forged … Read more
Andrew Wheeler, 46, displayed an ‘arrogance and a belief that he was untouchable and protected, as he saw it, by his paramedic’s uniform,’ the judge said A paramedic who raped a patient in her own home and sexually assaulted another in his ambulance while she was unable to breathe has been jailed for 21 years. … Read more
Man who is ‘UK’s longest-suffering Covid patient’ takes his first steps since March last year Jason Kelk, 49, was admitted to St James’ Hospital, Leeds, on March 31 last year Primary School IT worker was unable to walk as lungs and kidneys were ravaged He has now taken his first steps on his own in … Read more
Jodie Comer and fellow Scouser Stephen Graham are seen filming new drama Help as they transform into a carer and Alzheimer’s patient living through pandemic care home crisis The actress, 27, was seen taking on the role of a carer to a patient, played by Stephen, 47, with early on-set Alzheimer’s disease Help is set … Read more