A FORMER health worker has won £825,000 damages from a health trust after being seriously injured in attacks by patients.
Lisa Carter, 38, was repeatedly punched, stamped on and bitten in a series of vicious assaults while working as a community carer for people with severe learning disabilities.
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THE boss of a doctor accused of performing two unnecessary hysterectomies has told of her concerns over his work.
Consultant gynaecologist Martin Quinn worked at Hope Hospital, now Salford Royal, between September 2002 and April 2005.
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HOSPITAL bosses have apologised to the family of a 70-year-old dementia sufferer who was left to fall three times in four days.
Great-grandma Ellen Hughes suffered “horrific” bruising, a suspected broken thigh and a bleed on the brain after falling on three occasions while at Mossley Hill hospital.
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MORE than 500 disabled people in Liverpool are living in unsuitable accommodation while they wait to be moved into housing that meets their needs.
The figure was revealed in a report which went before the council’s scrutiny committee.
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A DONOR crisis has led to a boom in the number of married couples going through kidney transplants at Liverpool’s biggest hospital.
Because of a severe shortage of donor kidneys, doctors at the Royal Liverpool hospital are doing more “spousal transplants” than ever before.
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VISITORS to Whiston Hospital will notice a new development at the site as the multi-million pound rebuilding programme moves another step forward.
A new pedestrian footbridge has been installed across Warrington Road, linking the entrance of the new hospital with the multi-storey car park. It will open in 2010.
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PLASTIC sandwich bags are helping to save the lives of vulnerable young patients at a Liverpool hospital’s neonatal unit.
Premature babies are being placed into the life-saving bags – normally used to carry lunches – to reduce the chances of hypothermia at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
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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 PARALYSED Merseyside teacher has spoken of her anger that the growing public sympathy for assisted suicide means she is now seen as ‘selfish’ for wanting to carry on living.
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HALTON could have the highest rate of abortions for 13-15 year olds in the North West.
The latest Government figures - for 2006 - released last Thursday show that 5.9 out of every 1,000 Halton girls in their early teens had an abortion that year.
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A CARE co-ordinator from Barrow was among those highlighted at the first awards held by Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust.
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A CAMPAIGN to prevent the spread of a sexually transmitted infection in Cumbria has received a national award.
The Cumbria and Lancashire Public Health Network, which co-ordinates public health improvement and development, and its Sexual Health Network, have been named runner-up in this year’s national NHS Communications Awards.
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PLANS to improve Millom’s Community Hospital are to be discussed in a public meeting.
Millom’s Neighbourhood Forum will discuss the Community Ventures project on Monday November 24.
The project includes a new health campus for the town incorporating a new GP surgery, pharmacy and mental health support services.
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HOSPITAL bosses are cooking up plans to change patients’ meals.
Lunch menus at Furness General could be given a shake-up within months if the proposals are approved.
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In the past 12 months north Cumbria’s hospital staff have transformed the way they stamp out the spread of infection.
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Cheap booze. For many those two words are enough to put a beaming smile on the face. A nice relaxing night with a bit of change left in the purse or wallet, whether that drink is consumed in a pub or the comfort of home.
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The government said last night it may send a new management team into Haringey council, to take over the running of social services in the borough where Baby P died at the hands of his mother and two men.
Sources close to Ed Balls said the step would be considered when an independent report into the state of social services in the borough reaches ministers on December 1.
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Britain has one of the best records on child deaths. One case blasted out of all proportion can undo years of good
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am not sure whether it is hypocrisy, ignorance or indifference that allows a large proportion of the British public to scream indignation at the death of Baby P on the one hand, while at the same time victimising the next generation (Britain in danger of demonising its children, claims Barnardo's, November 17).
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"Presumed consent" for organ donation would risk destroying the trust that patients and their families have in doctors, a government-appointed taskforce said yesterday, unanimously rejecting a proposal which has the support of the prime minister and chief medical officer.
Gordon Brown immediately made it clear that he still supported presumed consent, which would mean that every UK citizen would be assumed to be willing to donate their organs in the event of sudden death, unless they had specifically opted out by placing their name on a register.
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