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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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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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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When factory manager Tony Kitchen had an accident at work, there was no doubt he'd been seriously hurt. But he didn't expect surgery to make his condition worse.
Tony had been standing on a pile of packing boxes when a forklift truck smashed into it. He fell 20ft to the ground.
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Hospitals need to be vigilant against an emerging drug-resistant bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii, infection control experts have warned.
Like MRSA and Clostridium difficile, the bacterium poses the greatest risk to seriously ill patients.
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Gordon Brown personally demanded an inquiry into the children's hospital where leading doctors have warned about lapses in safety, lack of qualified staff and major operations being performed needlessly.
The Prime Minister asked an NHS watchdog to examine the quality of care at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) after The Observer last week revealed the findings of a report highlighting senior doctors' concerns.
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Last week, The Observer starkly highlighted problems at Birmingham Children's Hospital. This is indicative of a wider problem of how lack of long-term planning for children's services in the NHS as a whole risks damaging the quality of surgical care. Children's services in district hospitals have not been developed, and there is a risk of specialist hospitals being overwhelmed by referrals of simple cases.
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AN EGREMONT man hanged himself in a hospital toilet with his shoelace, an inquest heard last Thursday.\n\nMartin Herbert, 45, of Dent View, died at Yewdale Ward of The West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven on September 5, 2006 after tying the lace from his trainers around his neck and tying the other end to a window catch.
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MULTI-MILLION pound plans to redevelop a Wirral hospital have been approved by the region’s strategic health authority.
The £32m plans for St Catherine’s hospital in Birkenhead could see two GP practices from Tranmere moved to the site along with enhanced facilities.
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AN ISOLATION ward opens to patients today at Liverpool’s main hospital, to prevent the spread of hospital infections.
The ward at the Royal was visited by the Chief Nursing Officer for England Dame Christine Beasley yesterday and today will welcome its first admissions.
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MULTI-MILLION pound plans to redevelop a Wirral hospital have come a step closer after being approved by the region’s strategic health authority.
The £32m plans for St Catherine’s hospital in Birkenhead could see two GP practices from Tranmere moved to the site, along with enhanced facilities.
Wirral’s PCT wants to transform the site – much of which dates back to the Victorian era – into a community hospital providing community, out patient and day case services all on one “integrated site”.
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RESIDENTS are being urged to have their say on plans for Clitheroe’s new hospital.
The consultation document for the new facility is available on the NHS East Lancashire website and a series of public meetings will be held in the Ribble Valley in January, where people will be able to vote on the proposals.
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THE Royal Liverpool hospital is using new voice-activated technology to cut waiting lists.
Most delays are caused by communication difficulties between the staff involved in preparing theatres and transporting patients.
Working with the North Mersey Health Informatics Service, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust is among a small number of trusts in the UK to trial Vocera, a new instant communications system.
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Treatment at Birmingham Children's Hospital is worse than in the developing world and parents are 'told lies' to cover up sub-standard care, a doctors' report claims.
In the document, surgeons at the hospital claimed they had less support during kidney transplant operations than when they performed the same procedures in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Treatment at one of Britain's leading children's hospitals is worse than that in the developing world, according to a damning doctors' report uncovered by The Observer which also reveals how parents are "told lies" to cover up sub-standard care.
In the document, which the head of the Royal College of Surgeons describes as alarming, consultants are scathing about the Birmingham Children's Hospital. Last night MPs called for a full inquiry into the quality of care at the hospital, where children are treated for life-threatening conditions such as liver or kidney failure, neurological problems and chronic heart complaints.
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Shortages, incompetence and risky practice have been uncovered in an inquiry into Birmingham Children's Hospital. Grieving parents Lisa Weale and Jason Smith, whose first child Thomas died after surgery on a hole in his heart, say official admissions of failure can never comfort them
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A senior doctor at Birmingham Children's Hospital gave The Observer an insider's account of the many problems there. He spoke on condition of anonymity:
"The Birmingham Children's Hospital is a major regional and national centre of excellence in paediatric care. In some of what we do, we are recognised as being world-class. Yet there aren't enough beds at the hospital for all the children who need to be treated in many of what are called our "tertiary services", such as children who need an organ transplant, or have a flat head, a complex heart problem or a major facial deformity, or who require brain surgery.
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An Egremont man hanged himself in a hospital toilet with his shoelace, an inquest heard.
Martin Herbert, 45, of Dent View, died at Yewdale ward of the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven on September 5, 2006 after tying the lace from his trainers around his neck and tying the other end to a window catch.
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A CITY hospital with a £1.5m grocery bill has cut its food miles by buying more local produce.
Aintree Hospital catering bosses are still managing to feed patients on £2.80 per person per day.
The project has been such a hit that other hospitals are set to follow.
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