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3,645 people died between April 2007 and March 2008 as a result of “patient safety incidents”.

A decision by the Healthcare Commission to investigate standards of care at Eccleshill Independent Treatment Centre has been welcomed by the law firm representing the fiancée of John Hubley.

A report in Archives of Diseases in Childhood has found that most children with septic shock are not getting appropriate treatment in A&E.

Cancer patients will soon be able to get all their prescriptions for free, even if the medicines are not related to their cancer.

A checklist devised by the World Health Organisation can cut deaths by 40% and complications by more than a third when it is used in major operations.