It emerged at the weekend syringe drivers used by the NHS may have led to the deaths of thousands of people who were at their most vulnerable. The syringes were contained within plastic devices and ...

The government will examine claims the NHS was slow to take a "dangerous" automatic syringe out of service. It follows a whistleblower's warning, reported in the Sunday Times, that the devices could ...

NHS organisations should now be wholly compliant with safety rules requiring that all ambulatory syringe drivers with rate settings of millimetres have been phased out. Under a deadline set five years ...

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A syringe driver helped make the last two weeks of Desmond Heavey’s life a little more comfortable. The expensive pieces of equipment are used to deliver medication through a tube and needle into ...

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