Alder Hey organs scandal
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Alder Hey children's hospital fails four in five standards checksLiverpool trust chief Louise Shepherd defends hospital's safety after Care Quality Commission finds theatre and staff shortfalls
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Standards of surgery at Merseyside hospital criticised
The Royal College of Surgeons has produced a report which was prompted by whistleblowers' concerns.
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Mid Staffs: NHS culture is to blameLetters: There is pressure to deliver more for less and, in a culture obsessed with targets, managers, fearful of reprisals should targets be missed, are likely to cut corners
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Former Alder Hey pathologist struck offProfessor who took organs is found guilty of misconduct.
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No charges for Alder Hey doctorDick van Velzen, the pathologist who secretly stockpiled hundreds of dead children's organs at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, will not be prosecuted, it emerged yesterday.
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Case dropped against organ scandal doctorThe pathologist at the centre of the babies' organ scandal at Alder Hey hospital will not face criminal charges, the Crown Prosecution Service announced today.
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Nameless victims of hospital scandal are laid to restFifty nameless babies whose bodies were secretly stored for medical research at Liverpool hospitals were buried in the city yesterday.
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Have a heartLeader: We must all be potential organ donors.
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Warning over human tissueFear that new bill could hamper medical research.
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Plan to demolish Alder HeyAlder Hey children's hospital, which became synonymous with the organ retention scandal, could be closed and moved to a new site, it emerged yesterday.
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Doctor accused of failing to avert Alder Hey scandalA doctor at a children's hospital where thousands of organs were stockpiled by a maverick pathologist failed to intervene when presented with early evidence of the scandal, the General Medical Council was told yesterday.
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Alder Hey parents win public apologyThe NHS trust responsible for Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool made a public apology yesterday to the families of children whose organs were retained and stored without consent.
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Alder Hey parents accept out-of-court settlementAlder Hey children's hospital and the University of Liverpool today formally apologised for their roles in the scandal over the retention of children's organs.
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Alder Hey families accept £5mThe families of hundreds of children whose organs were wrongly retained by the Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool have accepted a £5m out-of-court settlement.
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Alder Hey scandal has hampered child cancer research, says charity
Research into cures for children's cancers is being set back by parents' unwillingness to allow small tissue samples from tumours to be stored for future study and doctors' reluctance to ask them, according to a leading cancer charity.
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Doctor 'lied' to parents over autopsy proceduresThe parents of a baby boy who had just died were not told the truth over what a postmortem examination would involve and the possible retention of the child's organs, the General Medical Council heard today.
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Alder Hey offers organ scandal parents £5,000More than three years after the organ storage scandal at Alder Hey hospital, Liverpool, parents of the dead children stripped of body parts have been offered compensation of £5,000 each.
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University retains human tissue 'without permission'
A leading university in Northern Ireland has been keeping human tissue without informing the relatives of those involved, it emerged today.
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Parents accuse Alder Hey of still keeping children's organsThe spectre of the organ retention scandal returned to Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool yesterday when the parents of a boy who died there claimed that his organs had been kept without their permission.
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University brought into Alder Hey organs claimThe University of Liverpool has been formally brought into the legal action in which parents are seeking compensation from Alder Hey hospital, where thousands of organs were removed from the bodies of children without consent.
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The naked and the dead
Gunther von Hagens' macabre exhibition has shocked and fascinated millions of people around the world, and now it has arrived in London. The German scientist tells Stuart Jeffries how his displays of real corpses can help us to understand ourselves - and why he invited the Alder Hey parents to see his work.
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Organ scandal hospital names new chief executive
Health chiefs at organ scandal hospital Alder Hey today announced that acting chief executive Tony Bell is to take the job on a permanent basis.
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Hospital boss sacked
The suspended chief executive of organ scandal hospital Alder Hey has been formally sacked two days after an internal NHS disciplinary hearing found her guilty of misconduct.
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NHS apologises after selling skin for chemical weapons research
An NHS trust has apologised after it admitted selling surplus skin for chemical weapons research without explaining to patients what it would be used for.
Making use of the dead
Tim Luckhurst: There are calls for a public inquiry at Sellafield - but the real scandal about body parts is that so few of them are used to help the living.