Tag Archives: opiates
The great NHS cover‑up: opiate syringes may have killed thousands
Thousands of elderly patients may have died prematurely because of cheap, faulty syringe pumps in a scandal described as “one of the biggest cover-ups” in NHS history, The Sunday Times reveals today. A whistleblower on the government inquiry into hundreds of deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Hampshire, said decision makers on the panel had […]
Nurse who took her own life, Anne Grigg-Booth, is another victim of Graseby syringe scandal, says son
A nurse who killed herself after being accused of murdering her patients was the innocent victim of the Graseby syringe scandal, her son said yesterday. Will Booth was 19 when his mother, Anne Grigg-Booth, took her own life, unable to cope with the trauma of being accused of killing at least three of her patients. […]
Gosport GP Jane Barton ‘responsible for hundreds of hospital deaths’
A retired GP will be found responsible this week for the deaths of hundreds of her patients, The Sunday Times understands. Dr Jane Barton, 69, is accused of prescribing fatal overdoses of opiate painkillers to her elderly patients while working at Gosport War Memorial Hospital near Portsmouth in the 1990s. A government panel has examined […]
Reckoning looms for ‘Dr Opiate’, Gosport GP Jane Barton, after 27 years and 833 deaths
They are the words of warmth that became the kiss of death: “Please make comfortable.” As a GP at a hospital in Hampshire, Jane Barton would scribble the phrase on medical notes after prescribing painkillers for elderly patients in her care. Those on the receiving end were supposed to be in extreme discomfort and on […]
Opiate death relatives speak: ‘I wish I’d trusted my instincts and got him out’
Elsie Devine, 88 Died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in 1999. Opiate drugs were partly to blame, an inquest found. Her daughter and granddaughter, Ann and Bridget Reeves, have been at the forefront of a 20-year campaign for justice. “My seven-stone grandmother, who did not have dementia and was recovering from a kidney infection, was […]
Gosport hospital deaths inquiry looks into 800 certificates signed by Dr Opiate
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hospital-deaths-inquiry-looks-into-800-certificates-signed-by-dr-opiate-jane-barton-p508dnh56 A retired female GP is at the centre of a £13m inquiry into hundreds of deaths that may have been caused by overdoses. The death certificates of 833 patients at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire are being re-examined as part of the inquiry by the Gosport independent panel, which is investigating claims […]