Shipman hospital deaths probed
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The Shipman Inquiry investigated the deaths in the early 1970s of 137 hospital patients, it has been revealed.
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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.
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Police talk to rail travellers as part of their inquiry in to the deaths of five women in Suffolk.
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An independent inquiry is ordered after an increase in the number of deaths after heart transplants.
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PATIENTS are still at risk from killer GPs such as Harold Shipman because the watchdog meant to protect them is more interested in protecting doctors, a damning report said yesterday.
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Leading doctors ask for an independent inquiry into the quality of care of severely injured patients.
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Doctors' watchdog the General Medical Council must do more to protect patients, the latest Shipman Inquiry report says.
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A medical examiner was investigating Wednesday the death of 76-year-old man during a virus outbreak that sickened 679 people on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
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Six doctors caught up in the Harold Shipman scandal are about to learn their fate. The doctors all signed cremation forms which had been filled out by the Greater Manchester GP.
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Medical experts have welcomed proposed changes to the way investigations into sudden infant deaths are handled. An independent inquiry has produced a report which proposes a major re-think of the way such cases are scrutinised.
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Operations suspended after rise in number of deaths, NHS management says
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Detectives investigate the death of a man and woman whose bodies were found in a house in Halifax.
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Two patients given inaccurate test results have died after a hospital failed to diagnose cancer in three other patients.
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(Albany, NY-AP, October 18, 2004) - State health officials said Monday an investigation found nothing unusual about the number of people who died of a rare, brain-wasting disorder in the Hudson Valley in the past year.
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Investigators are probing whether oxygen tanks, among other possible causes, may have started a fire at an adult care home that killed one person and put more than a dozen in the hospital, authorities said Tuesday.
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Dame Janet Smith, the head of the Shipman Inquiry, said today that although the General Medical Council was not directly to blame for Harold Shipman&#39;s 23-year killing spree, it had focussed too much on protecting doctors&#39; interests.
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Investigators are to begin an examination of a site where two people died in a collision involving two aircraft.