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Litigation over cosmetic surgery on the increase - 20th July 2010

Kidney transplant patient complains to hospital after over a seven hour wait to see a doctor - 7th July 2010

Foreign doctors in the UK should speak English competently - 1st July 2010

Yorkshire ambulance service response times improving but need to get better - 25th June 2010

Sons confront a doctor who negligently killed their father - 22nd June 2010

HPA could have done more to prevent e.coli outbreak - 16th June 2010

Government calls for a public inquiry into the failings of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust - 11th June 2010

Patient deaths down to the hospitals failings - 11th June 2010

Last year saw a record a low of sickness from work - 8th June 2010

New approach to bowel surgery by a Yorkshire hospital - 8th June 2010

Scheme introduced in Doncaster to reduce hospital admissions - 7th June 2010

Lorenzo, part of the NHS NPfIT project goes live - 4th June 2010

A women administered the wrong drug after giving birth died leading to the NHS Trust responsible being prosecuted - 20th May 2010

The NHS is considering rewarding people to quit smoking - 19th May 2010

Women to sue NHS hospital after a surgeon performed unnecessary bladder operations - 13th May 2010

Post-traumatic stress disorder identified by psychologists in many London bomb survivors - 12th March 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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