July 2nd, 2009
A hospital has apologised to a family and agreed to pay compensation following an incident in which a man died.
Gary Rayner, 46, went into Sunderland Royal Hospital on June 26th 2007 for a routine operation on his lymph nodes after previously beating cancer, the Sunderland Echo reports.
However, on June 30th, Mr Rayner began sweating profusely and then went into cardiac arrest.
Although a crash team was called, they could not resuscitate him and he died at 23:00 BST.
A subsequent investigation revealed that staff failed to provide anti-clotting drugs until June 28th, by which time it was too late for the patient.
Les Boobis, medical director and consultant surgeon of City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, gave evidence to support this and it was ruled that Mr Rayner’s family should receive compensation.
A spokesperson for the hospital said a compensation settlement had been agreed with the family of the deceased.
Clinical negligence occurs when a professional in the health service provides care that is deemed to be below standard and this causes physical injury, death or distress.
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June 18th, 2008
Senior NHS managers have admitted they are baffled as to why Birmingham has the worst infant mortality rate in the UK.
A recently published report by a House of Commons committee said there was "unexplained variations" in infant mortality rates between the regions.
NHS chiefs said that "limited data" about patients meant they were unable to precisely identify why infant deaths were so high in the Midlands South neonatal network, which includes hospitals in Birmingham, Solihull, Hertfordshire and Worcestershire.
The Birmingham Post reports that in 2005 there were 4.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the network area.
Meanwhile, in the Surrey and Sussex neonatal network, there were just 1.8 deaths per 1,000 live births.
A review has been launched by the Healthcare Commission to try to determine the reason behind the variations.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said: "There is a variety of factors that influence how those babies are likely to do. One would be the socio-economic group."
Britain is currently ranked 18th out of 27 EU countries when it comes to infant mortality rates, reports the Daily Mail.
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