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Swine flu kills mum just days after she has baby -Manchester Evening News 2nd Novemebr 2009
"A YOUNG mum with swine flu has died in hospital just days after giving birth to her first child.
Susan Ford was 35 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to Salford Royal Hospital with severe, flu-like symptoms. Her condition deteriorated rapidly and sahe was given an emergency caesarian section early the following day."
Oxford university student dies of meningitis - Daily Telegraph 3rd November 2009
"A student who had just begun her first year at Oxford University has died of meningitis. "
Woman dies of swine flu days after giving birth - Daily Telegraph 3rd November 2009
"A woman who contracted swine flu died just weeks after giving birth to her first child. "
Baby RB faces 'miserable sad and pitiful existence' - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009
"A desperately ill baby who has been in intensive care since birth should be allowed to die in peace or he will end up living a “miserable, sad and pitiful existence”, a court heard. "
Parents clash in court over taking child off life support - The Guardian 2nd November 2009
"A mother supporting a legal attempt to take her severely disabled baby boy off the ventilator that keeps him alive said today her son's "intolerable suffering" had to outweigh her grief at his death.
The boy, known as RB for legal reasons, was born last year with a rare condition that severely limits the ability to breathe and move limbs."
Mother dies after catching swine flu - The Independent 3rd November 2009
"A woman who contracted swine flu died less than three weeks after giving birth to her first child, a health authority has confirmed.
Susan Ford, 31, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, fell ill with the virus when she was 31 weeks pregnant. Her daughter, Poppy, was delivered by Caesarean section. Ms Ford's condition failed to improve and she died at the weekend, 18 days after giving birth."
Mother: why my baby should be allowed to die - The Times 2nd November 2009
"A mother at the centre of a legal wrangle over a gravely ill baby today told why she felt her son should be allowed to die.
Anthony Fairweather, a solicitor acting for the boy's mother, said: "RB’s mother has sat by her son’s bedside every day since he was born. Every day she has seen the pain he experiences just to survive. "
Baby RB: Tug of love as baby's mother says his life support can be turned off but father goes to court to stop it - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"A heartbroken mother took centre stage on Monday as the High Court was asked to let her seriously disabled son die.
She is backing a hospital's application for the year-old baby to be taken off life support.
The baby's father, however, insists he must live and says a simple operation could even lead to him being cared for at home. "
My cancer heartbreak: How do you tell your children mummy might die? - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"Can there be a conversation more difficult for a mother than the one where you have to tell your children you have cancer?
The one where you have to prepare them for the fact that you have an illness that might kill you. An illness that, at the very least, will rob you of your hair and your strength, and take you away from them for long periods, while you fight for your survival in hospital."
Mother dies of swine flu just days after giving birth to first child - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"A mother has died from swine flu after giving birth to her first child.
Susan Ford, 31, was 35 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to hospital with severe, flu-like symptoms.
Her condition deteriorated rapidly and she was given an emergency caesarean section early the following day."
More tests for right-to-life baby - BBC Health News 2nd November 2009
"A fresh medical assessment is to be carried out on a baby boy at the centre of a "right-to-life" legal dispute, a High Court judge heard on Monday.
The one-year-old, known as Baby RB for legal reasons, was born with a rare, genetic muscle condition that makes it hard for him to breathe independently."
Swine flu woman dies after birth - BBC Health News 2nd November 2009
"A 31-year-old woman who contracted swine flu during her pregnancy has died days after giving birth.\n\nSusan Ford was given a Caesarean section after being admitted to Salford Royal Hospital with flu-like symptoms. "
Change law on organ donation, doctors say - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"Every adult in the UK would be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, under a radical solution to the critical shortage of organs for transplant put forward by the country's oldest royal medical college. The ethics committee of the 500-year-old Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called for an examination of "mandated choice" as a means of boosting the supply of organs, the shortage of which is leading to more than 1,000 avoidable deaths a year. "
Jeremy Laurance: Let's face our mortality and allow others to live - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"I have carried the same organ donor card for the past 25 years. It is always with me in my wallet and although I may be getting on a bit and my organs past their best, I am still a prime candidate, being a London cyclist.
Yet should someone one day scrape me off the road and find my card among my things, it would be useless. It contains the telephone number of a house I left 15 years ago and the name of my then next of kin, from whom I have been divorced for more than a decade."
Leading article: Closing the gap on organs - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"The shortage of organs in this country is critical. Of the 8,000 people who were waiting last year for transplant operations, the lack of available organs meant less than half that number underwent transplant in 2008-9.
The shortage means that each year a large number of people die unnecessarily; are condemned to death in one of the cruellest of ways, in fact, because they know an extension to their lives is not beyond hope and is being denied them solely because no donated organ is available."
Lung cancer treatment in UK is 'woefully inadequate' - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"Key areas of lung-cancer treatment are still "woefully inadequate" and could be costing up to 3,000 lives a year, leading researchers said today.
A third of patients still do not receive a biopsy to diagnose their condition and thousands are denied life-saving surgery because of a lack of experienced specialists, according to the United Kingdom Lung Cancer Coalition (UKLCC)."
Countess of Chester Hospital criticised by Cheshire Coroner for over drugging elderly patient by mistake - Chester Chronicle 29th October 2009
"A MANSLAUGHTER investigation was triggered at the Countess of Chester Hospital when a pensioner died after accidentally being given double the maximum dose of an anti-depressant drug – TWICE."
Egremont woman who died from alcohol withdrawal was 'too heavily sedated' - Carlisle News & Star 31st October 2009
"The husband of a woman who died after suffering from acute alcohol withdrawal believes she was given too high levels of sedatives."
Paramedic suspended after letting trainee try to save patient who was already dead - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"A senior paramedic was suspended for allowing a trainee to try and save a heart attack patient he knew had already died. "
Salmonella investigation after nine outbreaks and two deaths - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"A salmonella warning has been issued as two people die in nine outbreaks across the country, prompting the Health Protection Agency to launch a full investigation."
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