The NHS has paid out £35 million in compensation to hospital patients who developed bed sores caused by staff neglect. Figures reveal that over the past two years nearly 700 legal cases linked to ...

Patients confined to bed in one position for long periods are almost certain to get blisters over the lower spine. Patients who develop ulcers, as sometimes happens among aged victims of broken ...

A WOMAN died of sepsis after a hospital "clearly" misdiagnosed her bed sore. Katrina Insleay, of Wyre Piddle, near Pershore, died of an infected pressure sore in January last year after her ...