{"id":1349,"date":"2018-11-28T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:52:12","slug":"health-secretary-promises-change-following-gosport-hospital-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/health-secretary-promises-change-following-gosport-hospital-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Secretary Promises Change Following Gosport Hospital Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five months after the report which revealed over 450 deaths due to over-prescription of drugs at Gosport Hospital, the Health Secretary has described new measures to prevent a recurrence of such shocking events.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the BBC, Matt Hancock has announced plans to address some of the underlying problems which allowed a scandal of this nature to occur:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\t<liNHS Trusts in England are to report annually on how staff and patient concerns have been addressed. In the case of Gosport Hospital both staff and relatives of those who died expressed concerns but there seems to have been no intervention in the drug prescribing routine as a result<\/li>\n<li>There is to be a review of the controlled drugs regime. It is thought that the over-prescription of drugs at Gosport continued for approximately 10 years<\/li>\n<li>There will be a \u201cfull and thorough\u201d investigation of all hospital deaths which are not otherwise assessed by a coroner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is to be hoped that these measures will help to restore public faith in the accuracy, integrity and transparency associated with the prescription and administration of drugs in hospital settings.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to a solicitor<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one are suffering from the severe effects of a significant failing in medical care, contact us to talk to a specialist medical negligence solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>It may be appropriate to make a claim for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275 334030\">01275 334030<\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five months after the report which revealed over 450 deaths due to over-prescription of drugs at Gosport Hospital, the Health Secretary has described new measures to prevent a recurrence of such shocking events. As reported by the BBC, Matt Hancock has announced plans to address some of the underlying problems which allowed a scandal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1368,1370,1369],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","tag-gosport-hospital-deaths","tag-hospital-drugs-regime","tag-whistleblowing-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}