8 d. ago Scots council fined £80k over 'preventable' death of dementia care home patient

Allan MacLeod, 69, died after disappeared from his bedroom at St Brendan's Care Home in Castlebay on the Isle of Barra on March 9 last year.

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8 d. ago Council fined after ‘preventable’ death of care home dementia patient

Allan MacLeod disappeared from his bedroom at St Brendan’s Care Home in Castlebay, Barra, and was found injured about four hours later.

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8 d. ago Western Isles Council fined £80k after care home failures led to 'preventable' death of vulnerable patient

The council was fined £80,000 at Lochmaddy Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

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1 week ago Care home firm fined for 'completely avoidable' death of vulnerable patient

Pensioner’s ability to leave home unnoticed ‘hugely concerning’ says watchdog

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3 w. ago Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon

A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more peopleGina Rippon is an emeritus professor of cognitive neuroimaging and author of The Lost Girls of AutismSoaring rates of diagnoses in various illnesses such as cancer and diabetes have stimulated a debate about whether medicine has an “overdiagnosis” problem. The claim is that individuals may be prematurely diagnosed with conditions that, although meeting criteria for a disease, will never cause symptoms or death during a patient’s lifetime.Discussions of this problem in the world of physical medicine have mainly been described as compassionate, arising from concerns that many so-called diagnoses might be unnecessary (does being pre-diabetic really mean you are ill?) or even harmful (the worried well being driven to seek needless and possibly damaging surgical interventions). Now that there are ever-more sensitive screening tests, and access to predictive...

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3 w. ago Gene therapy maker Sarepta tells FDA it won't halt shipments despite patient deaths

Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics says it won’t comply with a request from U.S. regulators to halt all shipments of its gene therapy

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last month Revealed: Five patient deaths were linked to junior doctors' strikes

An audit shows strikes by the BMA in 2023 and 2024 were raised in five Prevention of Future Death Reports issued by coroners.

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