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Lessons from Gosport: If you have concerns, make someone aware
Revelations about events at Gosport Memorial Hospital highlight the need for nurses to know the intended use of medicines, and to make someone aware if they have concerns
Revelations about events at Gosport Memorial Hospital highlight the need for nurses to know the intended use of medicines, and to make someone aware if they have concerns
The review into hundreds of untimely deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire raises several important issues for nurses and other healthcare staff.
The Gosport independent panel report into deaths at the hospital in the 1990s, published on 20 June, found that 456 patients died after being prescribed opioid drugs which they did not need.
The report says that if the nurses who originally raised concerns had been listened to, these deaths
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