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Man to sue NHS Trust following operation problems resulting in his leg being amputated - 12th February 2010

Disabled women dies after being scalded in a bath at a care home - 2nd February 2010

Safety reviews to be carried out by care homes on the prescribing of elderly residents medication - 8th January 2010

A 15-year-old girl died from heart failure after being sent home from hospital with paracetamol - 2nd January 2010

A 64-year-old woman died after being wrongly injected with a concentrate phosphate solution - 22nd December 2009

Mother angry after her daughter was sent away from hospital and died less than a day later from swine flu - 16th December 2009

New legislation will require NHS patient receiving treatment who suffer harm or death due to mishaps to have a report made on the incident - 8th December 2009

Alarming number of mistakes made in hospital prescriptions - 6th December 2009

Dr Foster report disputes ratings given by the official Hospital Trust ratings report - 29th November 2009

From 2013 nurses will be required to have a degree - 16th November 2009

10-year-old girl incorrectly diagnosed with asthma died from a throat tumour - 2nd November 2009

Godstone farm reopens after the E.coli outbreak which infected 94 people - 1st November 2009

A 10-year-old boys who died from meningitis leads to his family taking legal action - 25th October 2009

A woman who now only has a ten minute memory wins £4 million in compensation - 19th October 2009

Failing NHS Trusts have until April 2010 to improve or face closure - 18th October 2009

NHS staff mistakes caused serious harm or contributed to the deaths of almost 6,000 patients - 16th October 2009

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