An inquest has been formally opened into the deaths of 10 patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the late 1990s. The proceedings before the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire coroner will begin later this year and are expected to last several weeks.

A new report from the BBC refutes popular claims that a compensation culture exists, which bleeds dry the NHS and encourages people to claim for spurious injuries. Figures show that claims for personal injury are falling, and those for clinical negligence, where injury is suffered as the result of a medical mishap, are falling substantially – down by nearly 20% in seven years.

A Cornish woman has accepted  a five figure sum in an out-of-court settlement after surgery to remove her gall bladder went wrong.

The online report from the Gloucesetershire Citizen and a link to the article appear below:

A drug which is widely used to treat cancer may cause long term brain damage, it has been discovered.

Contracts with private healthcare providers to undertake outsourced NHS surgery in specially set up clinics have left the NHS with a bill for £187 million.

MORE than a thousand patients die as a result of medical blunders in hospitals across Wales every two years, it is revealed today.

The public’s fears over closure of local hospitals in favour of specialist centres further away are sometimes misplaced, according to Michelmores.

A review of more than 10,000 complaints against the NHS reveals that more than half of those patients with a grievance only want an apology.