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NHS health board fined £235,000 after patient takes own life

A health board has been fined £235,000 over a health and safety breach after a patient took his own life while in its care at a hospital.

The National (Scotland)

Health board fined after patient takes own life

The man was being treated at Dykebar Hospital in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

The Independent UK

Busy Cork city takeout hit with closure order by the Food Safety Authority

The FSAI issued a closure order on the takeaway business following an inspection carried out by HSE officers

Irish Mirror

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HSE spends €12 million every week on agency staff, FOI request figures show

"The hundreds of millions of euro spent by the HSE on agency staff begs the question: why?"

Dublin Live

Man given devastating diagnosis after falling at wife's funeral

James Queen, 74, said his 'body is wasted'

Liverpool Echo

Haulage firm fined £150,000 after driver killed by overhead power lines

The incident happened at Andrew Black's site at Drem Airfield base in East Lothian

Insider UK

GP Visit Cards: How to apply as Government announces changes and new income limit

The Government also clarified what are the new income thresholds be and how people can apply

Dublin Live

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East Lothian lorry driver died after being electrocuted while cleaning his truck

Andrew Black Ltd was fined £150,000 after a 25-year-old LGV driver died when his truck struck overhead powerlines at the company's Drem Airfield base in East Lothian.

Edinburgh Live

Scots haulage firm fined £150k after lorry driver electrocuted to death while washing truck

Driver Grant Borton raised the tipper on his truck which made contact with the overhead powerlines.

Daily Record

Tensions flare as Ireland grapples with refugee accommodation crisis

So as we pass the half-way point of the year, where does the row over refugee accommodation stand? Have we progressed?

Irish Mirror

Royal estate linked to many deaths and disappearances of protected birds

Cases linked to king’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk include alleged poisoning and shooting of some of UK’s rarest birds of prey

The Guardian - UK

Mother of electrocuted boy urges hospitality venues to ensure equipment is safe

Harvey Tyrrell, seven, died after touching defective lighting in a beer garden in 2018.

The Independent UK

Two e-cigarette products urgently recalled by HSE due to 'serious health risk'

The two fruit-flavoured products contain too much nicotine

Irish Mirror

HSE urgently recalls two fruit flavoured e-cigarette products over 'serious health risk'

The HSE is recalling the Fantasi Ice Orange and Fantasi Ice Remix Blackcurrant and Lemon as they contain too much nicotine

Dublin Live

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The Independent UK

Rollercoaster car ‘struck pier worker who went into restricted area’

A woman sitting in the front seat of the ride at Clacton Pier was also taken to hospital after the incident on Monday.

Evening Standard

Serco fined £240,000 after dad-of-four from London killed in crash with litter-picking vans

Health and safety failings by the firm put staff and the public at ‘significant risk’, an investigation found

Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire company fined 255k after worker suffered life-changing injuries in fall from lorry

B Taylor & Sons Transport Limited, of Export Drive, Huthwaite, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty

Irish Mirror

999 operator who hasn't received COVID bonus considering legal action as he feels like 'c**p on someone’s boot'

The Labour Party's Duncan Smith told the Irish Mirror that it was "outrageous" that Health Minister Stephen Donnelly "hasn’t got on top of paying the pandemic bonus to those who earned it".

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Dublin dad Andrew McGinley says inquest into kids' deaths is 'just the first step'

Lawyers for Andrew McGinley have asked the coroner overseeing the inquest to look into the medical care of his wife, Deirdre Morley, for the two years preceding the death of their children

Irish Mirror

Andrew McGinley says his three tragic children's inquest is 'just the first step'

Lawyers for Andrew McGinley have asked the coroner overseeing the inquest to look into the medical care of his wife, Deirdre Morley, for the two years preceding the death of their children

Dublin Live

Seven fruits diabetics should avoid that can increase blood sugar spikes

According to the HSE, in Ireland there are 190,000 people (5.6 percent of the Irish population) with diabetes

Irish Mirror

State failed in its care to nursing home resident who was raped by healthcare worker, Varadkar says

A healthcare worker was jailed for 11 years for the rape of a resident who was known by the pseudonym 'Emily'

Irish Mirror

Husband of woman who died after medics failed to spot symptom: 'I don't want this to happen to someone else'

Deborah Duffy, 50, a married mother of two from Co Meath, died at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown on February 4, 2018 - her inquest heard medics failed to spot a classic symptom of condition that killed her

Manchester Evening News

Vape liquid manufacturer fined 180k after worker's fingers sliced off

The victim, 43, lost two fingers and a thumb

Liverpool Echo

Man loses three fingers as hand dragged into factory machine

The company was fined £80k following the incident

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