Gosport War Memorial Hospital

Gosport War Memorial Hospital
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Gosport War Memorial Hospital in 2009
Location in Hampshire
Geography
Location Gosport, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 50°47′35″N 1°08′53″W / 50.7931°N 1.1481°W / 50.7931; -1.1481Coordinates: 50°47′35″N 1°08′53″W / 50.7931°N 1.1481°W / 50.7931; -1.1481
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type District General
History
Founded 1921
Links
Website www.southernhealth.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

The Gosport War Memorial Hospital is a hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, England, part of the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.[1]

History

The foundation stone for the hospital, which was built as a memorial to members of the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry based at Forton Barracks who had died in the First World War, was laid by Field Marshal Earl Haig on 3 July 1921.[2][3] The hospital opened on 19 April 1923.[4] The East Wing was added in 1932 and the Canon Landon memorial clock, which recognised the life of Canon Guy Landon, Rector of Alverstoke from 1907 to 1947,[5] was added following his death.[6][3]

The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] New out-patient and accident and emergency departments were added in 1963 and a physical medicine and x-ray facility was added in 1966.[3] A petition with 20,000 signatures prevented the hospital from closing in the early 1980s.[3] A new maternity ward opened in the early 1990s.[3]

Opioid deaths

On 20 June 2018 the Gosport Independent Panel, led by Bishop James Jones, after an enquiry which took four years and cost £14 million,[7] published a report which found that 456 deaths in the 1990s had "followed inappropriate administration of opioid drugs".[8] In his introduction the bishop says:[9]

The shocking outcome of the Panel’s work is that we have now been able to conclude that the lives of over 450 patients were shortened while in the hospital ... during a certain period at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, there was a disregard for human life and a culture of shortening the lives of a large number of patients by prescribing and administering “dangerous doses” of a hazardous combination of medication not clinically indicated or justified ... when relatives complained about the safety of patients and the appropriateness of their care, they were consistently let down by those in authority – both individuals and institutions...

If the similar cases with missing records are taken into account, the true number of victims may be up to 650.[10][11]

The panel found that the hospital management, local healthcare organisations, Hampshire Constabulary, the Crown Prosecution Service, the General Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and local politicians had all failed to act to protect patients and their families.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Gosport War Memorial Hospital". Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Gosport War Memorial Hospital". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gosport War Memorial Hospital from 1923 to 1995" (PDF). Portsmouth HealthCare NHS Trust. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "A Brief History of Gosport". Localhistories. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Our History". St Mary's Church, Alverstoke. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "The War Memorial Hospital as originally built, without the east wing, and no Canon Landon memorial clock". Gosport Heritage. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "'Disregard for human life' - 450 patients killed by painkillers at hospital, report says". Health Service Journal. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Boseley, Sarah (20 June 2018). "Gosport hospital: more than 450 patients died due to opioid drugs policy". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  9. 1 2 "Foreword by The Right Reverend James Jones KBE". The Panel Report. Gosport Independent Panel. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  10. ↑ Matthews-King, Alex (20 June 2018). "Gosport inquiry: GP 'responsible' for practice of lethal opiate prescribing which may have killed up to 650 patients at NHS hospital, inquiry finds". The Independent. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Hunderte Briten wegen unnötiger Opioide gestorben". Der Tagesspiegel. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  • Gosport Independent Panel (20 June 2018). The Panel Report. Full text of the report and link to downloadable pdf file


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