Drivers fitness ‘problem to assess’
Most health professionals cannot distinguish reliably between medically unfit drivers, borderline drivers and fit drivers, a report has claimed. Trainee doctors receive little tuition on medical aspects of patients’ fitness to drive (FTD), said …
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Family to sue ambulance service
A family are suing East Midlands Ambulance service after a man died in hospital following a 90 minute wait for an ambulance. Paul Allen, 53, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, suffered a heart attack while out shopping with his wife Carol and grand-daughter …
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Circumcision doctor faces fitness case
A doctor offering £150 circumcisions for young boys was been accused of leaving them in agonising pain after botched operations.
GP apologises over patient death
A doctor has apologised for failing to diagnose a woman suffering with cancer during an inquest into her death.
£4.4 million for brain-damage woman
A woman with a 10-minute memory span after a Durham hospital blunder left her brain damaged has won £4.46 million in compensation.








