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Patient safety in the news

This page highlights patient safety issues that have been published in the news media in print and online (including blogs), for news about the CHI+MED project please visit our main news pages

• Uccisa da una chemio letale al Policlinico l'errore fatale per una svista sul computer La Repubblica website (8 January 2012) - English translation
  
• GNOME's Sandler: Is there a killer in the code? ZDNet website (25 September 2011)
• Nurse's suicide highlights twin tragedies of medical errors MSNBC.com website (27 June 2011)
  
• Medication errors in care homes (Research report) Nursing Times website (17 June 2011)
• Medication errors common for hospital diabetes Nursing Times website (1 April 2011)
  
• Narrative verdict on death of baby given ten times too much salt solution This is Nottingham website (24 November 2010)
• West Yorkshire boy died after hospital overdose Yorkshire Evening Post online (2 November 2010)
  
• NHS nurse who turned off life-support will not face charges Telegraph online (26 Oct 2010)
• Nurse suspended after ventilator 'error' Channel 4 News website (25 October 2010)
  
• Case Notes: Patient Safety BBC Radio 4 (broadcast 9pm, 31 August 2010) - programme transcript
• Grim toll as NHS trusts miss patient safety alerts BBC News website (16 February 2010)
• NHS trusts 'not complying with safety alerts' BBC News website (16 February 2010)
• Human error and fatal chemo doses Medical News Today website (9 May 2007)