Death by neglect: Lawsuit reveals 'normalization of cruelty' in UK health system

Deleted member 472633 · Dec 23, 2012

Death by neglect: Lawsuit reveals 'normalization of cruelty' in UK health system

A UK hospital has apologized and paid a settlement following a lawsuit that revealed years of grave malpractice. The accounts of negligence included letting a patient starve to death and reports of nurses mocking patients.
UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the British press that he was â€œdisgusted and appalledâ€ by the scandal, which affected over 38 families in the Midlands region of the UK. He stressed that the government was working to ensure that such failings of the National Health System (NHS) are detected more quickly in future.
â€œThe failings we uncovered were appalling â€“ vulnerable patients were left starving and thirsty, with drinks left out of reach, buzzers ignored and people left to sit in their own waste by the very people meant to be caring for them,â€ said Emma Jones, a lawyer from Leigh Day & Co, who represented victims and families.
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Doctors' basic errors are killing 1,000 patients a month - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent

Almost 12,000 patients are dying needlessly in NHS hospitals every year because of basic errors by medical staff, according to the largest and most detailed study into hospital deaths ever performed in the UK.

The researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues found something went wrong with the care of 13 per cent of the patients who died in hospitals. An error only caused death in 5.2 per cent of these â€“ equivalent to 11,859 preventable deaths in hospitals in England.
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Yay! socialized healthcare.

Penelope420 · Dec 23, 2012

An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company.
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In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA

Yay for non-socialized health care!

Iceni Toker · Dec 23, 2012

People will get neglected in healthcare either way, it needs to stop but I don' t see how it depends on which way the healthcare was paid for.

Deleted member 472633 · Dec 23, 2012

Penelope420 said:

In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA

Yay for non-socialized health care!
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Oh our healthcare system is definitely socialized what do you think medicare, medicaid is? ANY government intervention means you no longer have a free market.

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