Patient safety

'Disregard for human life' - 450 patients killed by painkillers at hospital, report says

By 2018-06-20T09:44:00

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More than 450 patients died from prescriptions made “without medical justification” at a hospital where the use of opioids resulted in an “institutionalised practice of shortening patients’ lives”, an investigation has found.

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