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- Whistleblowers Speak Up… Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, 28th May, 1:00pm. All Whistleblowers and Concerned Public welcome
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- NHS crisis tracker – What’s the state of the NHS crisis in your area? Check here
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- I’m a junior doctor in the NHS, and I’m terrified for this winter… By Aislinn Macklin-Doherty
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- ‘Inaccurate and incomplete’ nurse record keeping raises safety concerns, warn researchers… BY NICOLA MERRIFIELD Deputy news editor Nursing Times
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- Wall of silence that shames the NHS: Grieving families who complain over blunders are ‘fobbed off’, damning report reveals
- Disabled pensioner trapped in her home
- NHS bosses ‘trying to keep cuts secret’ an investigation has found
- Heartache as mother-of-three, 31, dies just weeks after being refused funding for a cancer drug because her disease wasn’t ‘exceptional enough’
- Exclusive: GP practices serving more than 5m patients could close in the next year
- Policy changes to implement the NHS five year forward view: a progress report by The Kings Fund
- Exclusive: Trust guilty of serious service failure over child’s death by Shaun Lintern written for HSJ
- Surgeons should ‘let patients choose’ to avoid litigation, new guidance states
- NHS whistleblower ‘facing sack’ goes on hunger strike
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- How MyNotes Medical got started by Joanna Slater
- Document all your health issues for you and your loved ones. MyNotes Medical download today
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- Boss of scandal-hit hospital with 287 unexplained deaths apologises for suffering patients endured
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- New dementia training package for nursing staff by Steve Ford for Nursing Times
- Terminally ill actor Brian Rix calls for assisted dying law change
- Drug shortages are ‘harming’ patients, say GPs
- Big rise in patients falling victim to NHS surgical mistakes
- Whistleblowers being ‘blacklisted by NHS’ as staff records state they were ‘dismissed’ even after being cleared at tribunal
- Cancer overtakes heart disease as No1 cause of death: Statins, healthier lifestyles and better treatment help cardiovascular deaths to plummet
- More than 50 allegations of ‘dirty practices’ against Nottinghamshire dentist
- ITV Tonight is making a programme about the financial abuse of the elderly
- Thousands of cancer sufferers surviving decades after diagnosis. Macmillan researchers say
- Mother claims she has to restrain mentally-ill son, 24, with handcuffs due to ‘lack of support from NHS
- ‘We were told not to pick a fight with the NHS’: Parents of three-year-old who died needlessly from sepsis were made to feel like the tragedy was ‘just bad luck’
- 5 News investigation: Failures in mental health trusts exposed
- Doctors’ basic errors are killing 1,000 patients a month. Biggest ever study of errors in British hospitals finds one in ten patients affected
- Pregnant mental health patient ‘pinned to floor’
- Government commits to high quality end of life care
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- Listen to parents of sick children rather than tests, NHS tells doctors
- Church Crookham baby death sparks national review into care for newborns
- NHS plan to shut child heart surgery units causes outcry
- Care quality set to worsen this year, warn finance directors
- Children’s hospital ‘let down by parents’
- Children let down by Bristol hospital’s ‘poor care’
- Family who lost son speak of ‘toxic culture’ at Bristol Children’s Hospital
- Midwife sacked over new Morecambe Bay death
- NHS to withhold report on primary care support problems until 2017
- Coroner puts hospital’s weekend staffing in spotlight after death of woman
- The NHS needs a strong dose of tech investment
- £177k forked out by NHS on New Cross whistleblower bill
- Hospital apologises to parents after damning report on handling of baby’s death
- North Middlesex hospital A&E faces closure on safety grounds
- ‘I survived sepsis – only for it to kill my son’: Mother whose baby boy died after medics missed killer illness discovers she had battled blood poisoning first
- Patients ‘will be put at risk and operations delayed’ as shortage of anaesthetists in the NHS is set to grow
- The dawn of a new era for cancer survival: Tailored treatment made ‘inoperable’ liver cancer vanish – giving new hope to patients
- Southern Health Trust made a statement to Sara Ryan and her family saying they were very sorry for Connor’s death.
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- North Middlesex issued with warning over emergency department
- Bowel cancer: Stents ‘may prevent need for colostomy bags’
- Priory Hospital in Ticehurst ‘neglected’ girl, 14, found hanged
- Revealed: 30,000 patients left waiting in ambulances outside London A&Es last year
- Hospitals hit by a 36% rise in heart failure cases: Number up by a third in a decade… because more people are surviving heart attacks
- Winterbourne View scandal families urge PM to shut ‘outdated care units’
- Horrifying Photos Show What Nursing Staff’s Alleged Neglect Did To Elderly Woman’s Body
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- NHS failing to learn lessons from complaints, says health ombudsman
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- Exclusive: Charity nurses warn of ‘postcode lottery’ in specialist children’s care by Jo Stephenson for Nursing Times
- My Story With Addisons Disease – Justice for Robbie Powell! article by Malisha Fuller
- Daughter launches app after seeing mother’s struggle – but now she needs your help
- Junior doctors dispute: BMA and government reach deal. 18 May 2016
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- NHS complaints watchdog deputy quits over sexual harassment cover-up
- Government urged to close junior doctors whistleblowing loophole 5 APRIL, 2016 BY SHAUN LINTERN – FOR HSA
- Datix appoints James Titcombe OBE as Patient Safety Specialist
- Press release – NHS Improvement intends to take further action at Southern Health
- Junior doctors’ row: The dispute explained
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- Second NHS whistleblower tsar departs as Office of National Guardian sinks further into ‘crisis’
- NHS whistle-blower told she was ‘too honest’ to work for the health service
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- Terminally ill patient tells ITV News: I want to die at home – hospitals don’t care as much
- Mother whose son killed himself ‘let down’ by mental heath services
- Funding research into and supporting those affected by genetic heart conditions in children
- Nursing training places shortfall revealed in report “sneaked out” before Parliament’s Easter break
- The number of ‘serious untoward incidents’ in the Welsh NHS has doubled in four years
- NHS junior doctors who turn whistleblowers risk ‘career suicide’ reveals a doctor who did it
- Francis adviser to lead inquiry into ‘heart breaking’ baby death – BY SHAUN LINTERN
- NHS Scotland whistleblowing line gets extra year – BBC News
- Staffing crisis as nurses quit NHS – More than 1,260 have left the NHS in the past year alone
- Scarlet fever: Once-feared Victorian disease infecting hundreds of children a week
- Newborn baby left dying alone at the Royal Free Hospital because doctors thought he had died
- Are you willing to talk to the ITV with a prebudget news program illustrating how the disability benefits cuts will affect vulnerable people
- Health officials have ‘failed brain tumour patients and their families for decades’
- Britain’s care homes are being turned into complex financial instruments
- Jo Taylor – abc After Breast Cancer Diagnosis – Speaks on BBC North West
- Mencap worker suspended over man in wheelchair piled with shopping
- Breast Cancer Trial Kills Tumours In 11 Days
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- Plans to end the cover-up culture in the NHS
- NHS child mental health money ‘missing’ despite investment
- Mum dies after NHS 111 call handler cancelled her ambulance when it was just one minute from her home
- NHS failing to answer patients’ questions, warns Ombudsman
- ‘No criminal prosecutions’ of individuals over Stafford Hospital deaths
- Bullied into silence: NHS staff survey shows fears about whistleblowing
- Ambulances referred by NHS 111 service deliberately delayed under secret trust policy, inquiry finds
- Four Southport and Ormskirk hospital bosses paid £200,000 while suspended for six months
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- Neglect played part in death of mother after medics missed blood clot
- Stricken A&E patients told ‘go home unless you’re dying’ as hospital is hit by seven-hour delays
- Secretly filmed carer found guilty of abusing 87-year-old dementia patient
- Agency nurse paid £100 an hour at Walsall Manor Hospital
- NHS 111 helpline safety questioned by top paediatrician
- More than 1,000 NHS ‘never’ errors in four years
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- Asleep when they should be saving lives: Pictures of exhausted paramedic and call handler snoozing shame NHS’s out-of-hours hotline at UK’s worst-performing 111 centre
- Pensioner dies of thirst in hospital after nurse ‘refused to give her water in case she wet the bed’
- Any families in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire who put up cameras to monitor their loved ones in care homes. The BBC would like to hear from you
- London hospital trust heading for biggest overspend in NHS history
- PRESS RELEASE: Three Patient Safety campaigners Will Powell, Delilah Hesling and Jade Taylor, brought together through tragic circumstances which span 26 years met with the Secretary of State for Health, Mr Jeremy Hunt on 3rd February 2016
- Junior doctors’ strike: BMA totally irresponsible – Jeremy Hunt
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- 10 symptoms of cancer you could be missing
- Shocking video captures two care home workers taunting dementia sufferers by torturing the ‘comfort dolls’ they believe are real babies
- Hunt apologises to family of dead boy over NHS sepsis failings
- Nothing can prepare you for seeing your baby in a coffin’: Bombshell report condemns NHS 111 service as not safe for sick children over blunders that cost baby his life
- GE Healthcare: US healthcare giant makes fortune from NHS but pays hardly a penny in tax
- MyNotes Medical
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- Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital cancer scandal: Cleared after four-year fight! Victory for NHS whistle-blower
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- Nye Bevan’s dream: a history of the NHS
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- NHS moves to stop bereaved families blocking donation of relatives’ organs
- The dementia timebomb: People fear it MORE than cancer – yet it receives only a tenth of the funding
- Junior doctors row: David Cameron asks doctors to call off strike
- Our baby choked to death in nurse’s care so why didn’t they admit it for 14 years? Mother was branded ‘mental’ for pursuing the truth after 11-month-old daughter died
- David Cameron ‘must take bold action to tackle NHS and social care pressures’
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- *CBD OIL – WHERE TO BUY
- A link to My mothers story in The Mail on Sunday 5th June 2011 by Joanna Slater
- Contact Me
- Getting your message across. There are lots of ways to get your message across and all for free
- Helping you through life’s pressures and stress
- Poem – About dementia – “YOU SEE ME” , “AND YET, YOU DON’T KNOW ME?
- Poem – Heart rendering poem about old age – Take a few minutes to read, it says it all
- Poem: To Love a Diabetic – By Katherine Marple
- Robbie Powell, died 25 years ago aged 10. Difficult to believe that this 4 part ‘Wales This Week’ documentary was aired 11 years ago and yet the NHS cover up continues 25 years after Robbie’s needles death!
- Six Things to Never Say to a Bereaved Parent – By Angela Miller
- Video – Alzheimer’s- Most People Don’t Know How To Reach Someone With Alzheimer’s But This Angel Sure Does
- Video – Cancer awareness – Check yourself, don’t wreck yourself
- Video – Cancer Patient Does This To Show The World What Being Sick Really Means
- Video – Miracle of life – From conception to birth
- Video – People With Down Syndrome Dance To ‘Happy’ To Celebrate World Down Syndrome Day
- Your comments – Thank you
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