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		<title>Missed Safety Alerts &#8220;Putting Patients At Risk&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by the charity Action against Medical Accidents concludes that patients are being put at risk by the failure of NHS organisations to act upon safety alerts.
Patient Safety Alerts are issued to warn of known and avoidable problems that have repeatedly harmed or killed patients.  The alert not only warns of the risk, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Radcliffe Hospital Child Heart Surgery &#8220;Should Remain Suspended&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart surgery on children at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, should remain suspended, a report has recommended.
Between December 2009 and February 2010 there were four child deaths at the hospital all following surgery by a recently appointed surgeon.  The surgeon asked for the heart surgery service to be suspended and that the equipment within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widespread Prescription Errors Discovered by GMC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report by the GMC has found widespread errors in the prescription of drugs to hospital patients.
The study examined prescriptions in 19 hospitals and found errors in 11,077 prescriptions, which amounts to approximately 1 in 9 prescriptions.
The study also analysed the experience of the doctors who had made errors and found that, contrary to popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basildon Hospital Criticised By Care Quality Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government&#8217;s healthcare watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has publsihed a report making numerous criticisms of the Basildon &#38; Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust &#8220;the Trust&#8221;.
The Trust is responsible for Basildon and Orsett Hospitals in Essex, which were the subject of a surprise inspection by the CQC.  The inspection uncovered a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chairman of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust Sacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monitor, the government body who oversee NHS Foundation Trusts has dismissed the chairman of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust.
Richard Bourne was removed from his post after Monitor found the Trust failed to meet a series of waiting time targets, including those for cancer referrals and for patients waiting in the accident and emergency department.
The Trust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHS Funded &#8220;Private&#8221; Hip Replacements 20 Times More Likely To Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study has found that hip replacements paid for by the NHS but carried out at a private treatment centre are 20 times more likely to fail than hips replaced in NHS hospitals.
In order to reduce waiting times, some NHS patients are treated in the private sector at centres funded by the NHS.  There has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPs Fear Flu Service Misdiagnosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[90% of general practitioners polled by GP magazine said that they feared that patients with serious illness could be misdiagnosed by the National Flu Pandemic Service (NFPS).
The NFPS has been set up to cope with the outbreak of swine flu.  Patients who have concerns telephone the service or log on to its website and are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infection Kills Heart Operation Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three patients who underwent heart surgery at a Nottingham hospital have died as a result of an infection acquired whilst in hospital.
The patients had undergone heart valve replacement surgery at the Trent Cardiac Centre at Nottingham&#8217;s City Hospital.  Five other patients have also developed the infection and are being treated, whilst a further 14 patients are undergoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPs Paid Bonuses Not To Refer Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A scheme that pays GPs bonuses not to refer patients to hospital has come under fire from the British Medical Association (BMA).
Under the scheme operated by some local Primary Care Trusts, GP surgeries are paid cash bonuses of as much as £20,000 if they meet targets to reduce the number of patients whom they refer to hospitals for investigation and treatment.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Errors Kill 3,645</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figures revealed by the National Patient Safety Agency show an alarming increase in the number of patients who die as a result of hospital errors.
The figures for 2007/2008 show that 3,645 patient deaths were reported as caused by errors, an increase of 60% over the previous year.
The increased number is, in part, attributed to increased reporting of errors.  However, [...]]]></description>
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