A financial scandal has erupted at the UKs largest mental health trust, causing several clinical projects to be scrapped by the organisation responsible for looking after more than 20,000 patients a year including some of the most violent criminals based at Broadmoor high-security hospital.
nserted in the upper thigh under local anaesthetic, it acts immediately to lower blood pressure by more than 15 per cent without the use of drugs.
Scientists have drawn up a 29-point checklist they say will help doctors identify elderly patients facing an imminent and unavoidable death.
The frail former RAF gunner was taken from his house of 50 years in a dressing gown and separated from his cat.
Doctors should be prevented from performing cosmetic surgery outside their speciality, according to the Royal College of Surgeons.
Researchers discovered that the wonder pills, taken by around seven million people in Britain, save around 750 lives a years by preventing fatal heart attacks and strokes.
A test to determine if elderly patients will die within 30 days of being admitted to hospital has been developed by doctors to give them the chance to go home or say goodbye to loved ones.
A Lancashire care home under investigation over the alleged mistreatment of residents is to close.
THE number of children and young people dying from cancer in Scotland has dropped by almost 60 per cent in the past four decades, according to new research.
A 91-year-old widow died in hospital sixteen days after suffering a broken leg due to the negligent actions of a care home nurse, a court has heard.
