A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build a new surgery in west Wirral is to be revived next week after health executives revealed they intend to submit a new planning application.
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A man with a sore throat died because a GP ignored warnings that he had an allergy to penicillin, a court was told yesterday.
David Townsend’s face swelled up “like a Michelin Man” and within 90 minutes of taking his first tablet he was dead from anaphylactic shock.
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A doctor killed an elderly patient when she ignored instructions that he was allergic to penicillin and insisted he took the drug, a court has heard.
Dr Mitra Nikkhah is accused of manslaughter through gross negligence after David Townsend went into anaphylactic shock and died after taking medication she had prescribed.
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A former Devon GP charged with killing an elderly patient has denied she knew he was allergic to penicillin.
Dr Mitra Nikkhah, 41, who is now based in Dubai, denies manslaughter through gross negligence following the death of David Townsend in Plymouth in May 2006.
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THE former assistant manager of a medical practice in Workington, “cooked the books” to pay herself tens of thousands of pounds more than she was entitled to, a court heard on Tuesday.
Sandra Lancaster, 50, got away with so much from the Ann Burrows Thomas Health Centre, in South William Street, Workington, that at one time she was taking home more than some of the doctors, it was alleged.
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The former assistant manager of a medical practice in “cooked the books” to pay herself tens of thousands of pounds more than she was entitled to, a court heard.
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County councillors are backing a bid to ensure Cumbrian doctors’ practices can continue to dispense prescriptions.
Patients who live more than one mile away from a chemist are currently able to get medication directly from their GP.
But Government proposals would mean patients could do this only if their surgery is more than one mile from a chemist or they live in rural areas.
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'm 30 and suffered with terrible constipation, despite drinking at least three litres of water a day and eating plenty of high-fibre foods such as wholegrains and vegetables. I'm lucky if I go to the loo more than twice a week. It's very distressing as I get very bloated and uncomfortable.
I've tried fibre supplements such as Regulan but they don't do very much. At the moment, I'm having to resort to laxatives. I'm worried there's something wrong
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When Denzil Searle first fell ill he assumed he had flu.\n\nBut after a few days it became clear that it was something else.\n\nHis GP suspected tonsillitis and prescribed a course of antibiotics, but after an initial improvement Denzil's health deteriorated again.
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A HEALTH trust has removed toys from all of its clinics - claiming they are a health risk.
Trafford Primary Care Trust bosses have told staff to get rid of toys and advised GPs to do the same because they fear they spread infections among children.
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SEFTON residents have been invited to have their say about their local NHS.
NHS Sefton is currently asking local people for their views and comments about its five-year plan called Better Health, Better Life.
Barbara Strong, assistant chief executive for NHS Sefton, said: “We want as many people as possible to get involved to help us ensure that the schemes we are proposing are the right ones for Sefton.
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A finance watchdog is asking NHS patients in Wales to tell them of their experiences in booking emergency GP appointments and using A&E services.\n\nThe Wales Audit Office said the system can be complex and "can be confusing".
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AMBITIOUS plans to build an all-in-one health centre in the heart of Middlewich were outlined in a public consultation exercise at the Civic Hall.
The project, esti- mated at £3million, would see the artificial football pitch used by Middlewich High School shifted further back on to wasteland behind the White Horse pub, allowing room for a two-storey building with car parking space to be built on the St Ann’s Walk site.
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AN ACTON Bridge man fighting an ongoing legal battle with the health authorities has a new date for an independent panel to review his bid for “justice”.
Stephen Johnson, of Strawberry Lane, Acton Bridge, will renew his three-year battle with Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) on November 24 and 25.
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GPs are getting £100 bonuses for carrying out yearly health checks on people with learning difficulties.
Ministers have offered doctors the cash per consultation after an inquiry found this group of patients were suffering because of poor access to the NHS.
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Family doctors are to be paid £100 a time for carrying out an annual health check on people with learning disabilities, after an official inquiry warned that they were suffering avoidable ill health and even premature death because their needs were being ignored.
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Cancer patients are facing a "postcode lottery" with some primary care trusts spending more than twice as much as others on prescription cancer drugs, the Tories claimed today.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said that figures released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that on average PCT's in England spent £390.17 per patient.
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GPs open new front in obesity battle by referring their overweight patients to private clubs
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In an age of super-surgeries, polyclinics and locum GPs, Dr Chris Whitworth is very much a family doctor.
He represents the fifth generation in a line of GPs to serve his village since 1839.
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CUMBRIA health bosses want to be allowed to set their own rules on which GP practices can dispense medicines.
Currently, patients who live more than a mile away from a chemist are entitled to medication direct from their GP.
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