Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
A taskforce is being sent to Basildon and Thurrock NHS trust after Care Quality Commission inspectors identified serious concerns in emergency care, hygiene and cleanliness. The Trust, which has a mortality rate a third higher than the national average, was rated as "good" on quality of service in the CQC's 2008/09 assessment and marked "excellent" for its financial management....
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Why does someone who is performing a 'public service' need to be paid up to £100,000 a year? A labourer is is worthy of his hire, as Karl Marx once said. But is it right to reward someone with such a whopping big salary - when they have enjoyed a good living from the public purse for years - and presumably now benefit from a handsome public pension to boot? Step forward, Professor Sir Ian Kennedy...
Bristol Active Social Club (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Hi all Come and join me for a pub night at The Colston Yard, Colston Street, Bristol on Saturday 14th November. It's pretty central at the top of Christmas Steps opposite the Bristol Royal Infirmary so really easy for buses, taxis etc ........ http://www.colstonyard-butcombe.com/ I will be there from 8pm. New and old members very welcome. If you're brand spanking new and would like to meet me outside...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Man appointed to chair the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority already has one strike against him as far as MPs are concerned Sir Ian Kennedy, who has been chosen to chair the new independent Commons expenses watchdog , has one strike against him as far as MPs are concerned. They dislike the fact he will be paid up to £100,000 – £30,000 more than a backbench MP's basic...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Hannah Saaf, 27, admits causing death of Sam Riddall after car mounted pavement and ploughed into schoolchildren A driver who was tracked down by police, nine days after she fled on foot from the scene where she knocked down and fatally injured an 11-year-old boy, has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. Hannah Saaf, 27, from Kingsdown in Bristol, appeared before Bristol crown court...
Scientific Misconduct Blog (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Here is an excellent letter in the British Medical Journal (18 July 2009; 339:124). I guess it summarises everything I have to say on the topic. The same letter in text format (minus references) is below: Sitting leaders ask you to stand up for safety If junior doctors follow the recommendation of medical leaders and stand up for the safety of patients will they receive support from those leaders?...
Bristol Traffic (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
A press release from the cycling campaign reaches our inbox . The Bristol Cycling Campaign wishes to extend its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the cyclist who died following a collision with a lorry on Winterstoke Road on Tuesday August 11. This tragedy is part of a series of bicycle/lorry collisions in the city over the past week. Thursday August 6 th , A collision at the junction...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Analysis dispels myth that surgeons are more likely to refuse to operate on risky cases if data is made public Death rates of people undergoing heart operations have dropped dramatically over the last few years since surgeons started publishing the figures, it is revealed today. The data on 400,000 operations over the last five years, published by the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, shows death...
Informaticopia (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
The UK Faculty of Health Informatics is organising a NHS CLINICAL INFO-MARTThis will be an opportunity to share innovations and experiences in the field of clinical informatics that make a difference to patient careTuesday 13th January Waterside, Watershed, Bristolhttp://www.watershed.co.uk/conference/The UK Faculty of Health Informatics, in conjunction with Bristol Royal Infirmary’s Paediatric...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
CARDIFF, Wales, June 2 (UPI) -- A culture change to encourage whistle-blowing is required to protect patients and clinicians in Britain, a Welsh doctor says. Peter Gooderham, who has retired as a practicing physician and is working toward a Ph.D. at Cardiff Law School -- on the subject of the clinical negligence system in England and Wales -- writes in an editorial most patients expect doctors to...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 04/13/2009
Mike Packer keeled over in agony in a lift at the Bristol Royal Infirmary while on his way to see his sick brother. Luckily he was seen by specialists almost immediately.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/15/2009
A sixth ward is closed at the Bristol Royal Infirmary because of a sickness bug.
PD and me (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
A week before christmas I had a letter from a specialist I had been seeing at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, bearing in mind I have changed specialist due to the lact of activity with this guy. Well just before Xmas I had a letter from the above specialist informing me they could now fit me [...]
Bristol Evening Post (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
When Gordon Lewis, of Redland, suffered a heart attack last month, he thought it was just indigestion, but within a few hours he had been rushed into the Bristol Royal Infirmary and operated on. The 75-year-old former optician started feeling ...
Bristol Evening Post (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
A pensioner has died after he was hit by a car as he walked across a motorway slip road. The 88-year-old man from Fishponds was taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary after the accident involving a Ford Fiesta at Junction 2 of the M32, in Eastville, ...
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