Showing posts with label Liverpool Echo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liverpool Echo. Show all posts

Paramedic faces 2nd police probe - Liverpool Echo 25th November 2008

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A MERSEYSIDE paramedic was suspended amid allegations he “assaulted” a young mum.

Tyrone Fitzgerald, 34, is being investigated by police following the alleged attack at the woman’s Warrington home.

It is alleged the ambulance worker returned to the house when off-duty after being called previously to see her young child.

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tags: Ambulance Services, Health, News, CMHN, Liverpool Echo, Ethics, Professional Discipline, Jurisprudence

TV exposé nurse neglect charge - Liverpool Echo 25th November 2008

A LIVERPOOL nurse who went undercover for a television exposé at a hospital could be struck off.

Margaret Haywood, 58, is facing a four-day disciplinary hearing in London at the Nursing and Midwifery Council to decide her career.

The Everton woman has come under fire after she took part in a BBC Panorama show three years ago.

tags: Whistleblowing, Health, News, CMHN, Mass Media, Elder Abuse, Professional Discipline, Ethics, Liverpool Echo


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Whistleblower nurse could be struck off for Panorama exposé of appalling abuse of elderly patients - Daily Mail 25th November 2008

Tan jabs ‘dice with death’ - Liverpool Echo 24th November 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

LIVERPOOL’s health experts today said anyone injecting themselves with an unlicensed tanning drug is dicing with death.

Medical director for Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s provider services Dr Jim O’Connor said he would be “horrified” if any of his children wanted to inject themselves with tanning hormone Melanotan.

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tags: Health, News, UHN, Liverpool Echo, Dermatology, Drug Therapy

Kidney donor is happy to be the ’spare part’ twin brother - Liverpool Echo 24th November 2008

A DAD-OF-ONE is donating one of his kidneys to save his twin brother’s life.

Printer Roy Carroll, 40, of Walton, who was born with only one kidney and one lung was told he had kidney failure four and a half years ago.

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tags: Health, News, Kidney Diseases, Transplantation Services, CMHN, Liverpool Echo

St Helens and Knowsley Trust win good hygiene praise - Liverpool Echo 24th November 2008

ST HELENS and Knowsley Trust is one of the top five NHS organisations in the country for good hygiene.

A Healthcare Commission report revealed that there has not been a single case of MRSA at Whiston and St Helens hospitals this year and praised the infection control and cleanliness in the buildings.

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tags: Hygiene, Infection Control, Hospitals, Quality, Health, News, CMHN, Liverpool Echo

Drug mistake nurse suspended to protect public - Liverpool Echo 22nd November 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

A HOSPICE nurse who gave the wrong drug to a patient was suspended for 18 months.

Valerie Beedles, 55, of Wirral, was called before a disciplinary committee after the incident at St John’s hospice, in Bebington, more than two years ago.

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tags: Nursing, Professional Discipline, Health, News, CMHN, Liverpool Echo, Palliative Care

Alder Hey in organs call - Liverpool Echo 21st November 2008

ALDER Hey today revealed it has body parts from organ retention pre-dating 1988.

Yesterday, the ECHO revealed hospital bosses plan to dispose of tissue samples, organs and foetuses from 10,000 children.

Bereaved families now have six months to come forward and claim body parts for a private burial, or they will be buried at Allerton cemetery.

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tags: Children, Ethics, CMHN, Health, News, Pathology, Hospitals, Liverpool Echo