The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Government will this week come under further pressure to hold a public inquiry into deaths of elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the 1990s, as relatives and lawyers meet Norman Lamb MP, the Lib Dem health spokesman.
NHS-THE OTHER SIDE (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The GMC has struck off Dr Pushpa Kaushal for the irresponsible treatment of 15 patients at two care homes she ran, deemed as “nothing short of scandalous”. The overseeing body felt the doctor’s actions between January and October, 2006, had shown a reckless disregard for patient safety, did serious harm to others, violated patients’ rights, was dishonest, had a lack of insight...
Gosport.info (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Left to right: Julie Greach, Healthcare Support Worker, Marilyn Baker, Staff Nurse Front Yong Pease, Senior Staff Nurse NHS Hampshire launched a new health campaign today [18 th September, 2009] with the help of nurses from Gosport War Memorial Hospital. The Sign Up campaign encourages local people to help shape health services in the local community as well as offering tailored healthcare advice for...
Angus Dei on all and sundry (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
OK that’s the “birthday” thing out of the way (see earlier post), but before the off, I was contacted by a “friend” of “Dr” Jane Barton, the GP in the Gosport War Memorial Hospital Massacre (link... Take a look, you never know.
NHS-THE OTHER SIDE (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
From Portsmouth today Earlier post is here The doctor at the centre of elderly patient deaths at a hospital could face harsh consequences for her actions – even if she is not struck off. A General Medical Council disciplinary panel has a choice of five sanctions if they find Jane Barton's fitness to practise is impaired. Dr Barton has admitted a string of allegations relating to her care and...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Dr Jane Barton who prescribed ''potentially hazardous'' levels of drugs to elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital could be struck off after she was found guilty of recklessly prescribing the powerful painkillers.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Patients who died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital did so because of existing conditions and not because of the powerful painkillers and sedatives a doctor prescribed for them, a General Medical Council Fitness to Practice Panel was told last week. Dr Jane Barton, who is at the centre of nearly 100 suspicious deaths at the hospital between 1995 and 1999, denied she put patients on a "terminal...
Medical Futility (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
Dr Jane Barton faces losing her medical license (aka "struck off" by the GMC) over allegations that she over-medicated a total of 12 patients with cocktails of drugs at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Portsmouth during the 1990s. ( UK Telegraph ) Earlier this year, an inquest jury found that inappropriate medication contributed to the deaths of three patients. Expert Gary Ford testified...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
Elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital were prescribed potentially lethal doses of painkillers and sedatives for no obvious reason, the General Medical Council was told last week.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) is extremely concerned about the length of time that it is taking to resolve the issues for the families of former patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital. There have been two police investigations, which concluded in 2007, followed by an inquest conducted by the local coroner and continuing proceedings before the General Medical Council (GMC).
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Nurses who voiced concerns about the widespread use of potentially lethal drugs on elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital were harassed, labelled "troublemakers" and driven out of their jobs, the General Medical Council was told last week.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Disciplinary panel begins hearing into treatment of patients at Gosport hospital Elderly patients were left in "drug-induced comas" after being overprescribed painkillers and sedatives, a disciplinary panel heard today. Dr Jane Barton is accused of a series of failings in her treatment of 12 patients at the Gosport War Memorial hospital in Hampshire between January 1996 and November 1999....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
A former hospital doctor has admitted prescribing "potentially hazardous" doses of painkillers to elderly patients who later died at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
• Hospital doctor faces GMC hearing over drug doses • Relatives allege progress has been inexcusably slow Pressure is growing for a public inquiry into a series of deaths of elderly people at a hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, as a doctor faces the General Medical Council charged with giving patients excessive doses of the drug diamorphine. Jane Barton, who worked with elderly patients at...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
In 1991, nurses working night shifts at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire were troubled. Over the previous few months, the number of elderly patients dying under their care had been mounting. Two nurses at the community hospital (which treats elderly patients in need of rehabilitation or sometimes terminal care, in collaboration with GPs) raised the alarm to senior hospital staff and the...
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