Clinical Negligence News

Family get damages for GP failure
Thu 6th Nov 08 - 16:41

The family of a BBC documentary maker who died of a heart attack in 2004 is set to receive damages after three GPs admitted failure to diagnose.Nick Rossiter died following a cardiac arrest at the age of 43 in July 2004.Three GPs from the Westbourne Grove…

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Police probe feeding tube death
Mon 16th Jun 08 - 15:03

Police in Devon are investigating the death of a hospital patient whose feeding tube was wrongly inserted into her lung instead of her stomach. Muriel Elliott, 77, died in Plymouth's Derriford Hospital last September. But an internal hospital investigation has been unable to identify the doctor who wrongly verified that…

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