A newborn baby has been given a tuberculosis vaccine overdose at Scunthorpe General Hospital, according to the boy’s family.
The boy was given 10 times the usual dose of 0.5mg of the BCG vaccine, according to the baby’s family lawyers.
The baby, who was born on February 5, is now being helped the National Poisons Information Service [...]

 
A health trust in charge of a hospital in which a woman died because she given the wrong drug almost six years ago has admitted breaking health and safety laws.
Mayra Cabrera, 30, died soon after she gave birth at Great Western Hospital in Swindon in May 2004. Ms Cabrera had worked in the hospital as [...]

Some 55 thalidomide victims in Scotland are to share £3.4 million of funding over the next three years.

A police officer who lost a leg after a hospital allegedly failed to detect an artery blockage is to sue for compensation.

Ministers have decided against overturning a legal ruling affecting compensation payouts to workers suffering from an asbestos-related disease.