Tag Archives: Jane Barton
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 […]
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 […]