{"id":143744,"date":"2018-06-20T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/gosport-hospital-deaths-prescribed-painkillers-shortened-456-lives\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:58:51","slug":"gosport-hospital-deaths-prescribed-painkillers-shortened-456-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/gosport-hospital-deaths-prescribed-painkillers-shortened-456-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Gosport hospital deaths: Prescribed painkillers &#8216;shortened 456 lives&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(Clockwise from top left) Robert Wilson, Geoffrey Packman, Arthur (Brian) Cunningham, Sheila Gregory, Enid Spurgin and Elsie Devine\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/F0CA\/production\/_102124616_gosportdeathpatients.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  BBC\/PA\/Reeves family<figcaption>Image caption                                      Inquests into the deaths of 10 patients, six of whom are pictured, were held in 2009                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">More than 450 patients died after being given powerful painkillers inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, a report has found.<\/p>\n<p>An independent panel said, taking into account missing records, a further 200 patients may have suffered a similar fate.<\/p>\n<p>The report found there was a &quot;disregard for human life&quot; of a large number of patients from 1989 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jane Barton was responsible for prescribing painkillers over 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>There was an &quot;institutionalised regime&quot; of prescribing and administering &quot;dangerous&quot; amounts of a medication not clinically justified, the report said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NHS &#039;closed ranks&#039; over hospital deaths<\/li>\n<li>Reaction to hospital deaths report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Bishop of Liverpool James Jones, who led Gosport Independent Panel, said: &quot;The documents seen by the panel show that for a 12-year period a clinical assistant, Dr Barton, was responsible for the practice of prescribing which prevailed on the wards.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright BBC\/PA\/Reeves familyImage caption Inquests into the deaths of 10 patients, six of whom are pictured, were held in 2009 More than 450 patients died after being given powerful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}