Yes Martin Barnes Chief executive, Drugscope Under the name diamorphine, heroin is used routinely in the NHS to relieve severe pain caused by accident, injury or illness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Care Quality Commission also says changes are needed to the system for regulating and monitoring the use of these and other controlled drugs, to better identify any improper prescribing of drugs such as diamorphine, which was used by GP Harold Shipman to kill at least 15 patients and possibly up to 200. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The families of the victims, who had been in recovery, believe sedatives such as diamorphine were over-prescribed at the hospital and this led to their deaths. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The families of those who died believe that sedatives such as diamorphine were over-prescribed at the hospital and this led to the deaths of their relatives, who were receiving recuperative care. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some of their families believe that sedatives such as diamorphine were over-prescribed at the hospital and led to the death of their relatives who were receiving recuperative care. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Article 9 of this Directive envisaged that Schedule 2 includes drugs such as diamorphine ❋ Martins0105 (2009)
This case also shows some EU doctors are unfamiliar with diamorphine, which is commonly used for pain relief among UK cancer sufferers, "said the statement. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It employed the German doctor Daniel Ubani, who accidentally give a 10-fold overdose of the painkiller diamorphine to David Gray, a Cambridgeshire patient he treated in 2008. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I think that alone speaks volumes as to what sort of drug it is, when you look at diamorphine vs methadone and carry comparisons to dexamphetamine/methamphetmine vs Modafinil. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The incident that sparked their concern involved a German doctor, Daniel Ubani, who accidentally killed a patient, David Gray, with a tenfold overdose of the painkiller diamorphine on his first shift as a locum GP in the UK in 2008. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This is being piloted by 10 organisations following the scandal involving Daniel Ubani, a German doctor who accidentally killed a 70-year-old patient in Cambridgeshire with a 10-fold overdose of the painkiller diamorphine. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The doctor prescribed a diamorphine drip, coupled with a sedative. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And while many of the 18 patients he injected had only days to live, at least one patient – 74-year-old Harry Gittins – could have recovered from esophageal cancer had Martin not administered 200 milligrams of diamorphine the day before he died. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet those who are given it in hospital for physical (not emotional) pain do not risk having to sell their bodies, commit acquisitive offences, walk all over their partners, families, friends, lose everything - if the doctors believe that diamorphine is the only thing that will alleviate their pain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"They have to undergo a 50-hour course in addiction drugs as well as a further six hour session which concentrates almost solely on diamorphine," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Details of the action in Germany coincided with the publication of a devastating report by the NHS watchdog in England on Take Care Now, the defunct firm that employed Ubani as a locum for the fateful Saturday in February 2008 on which he killed David Gray, 70, at his home in Manea, Cambridgeshire, with a lethal overdose of the painkiller diamorphine. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ive been an advocate of legalising it for years, and buying up the crop from Afghanistan because we have difficulty producing therapeutic heroin or diamorphine. ❋ Tim Carpenter (2008)
Plaid's manifesto was clear on the need for harm reduction and we CURRENTLY have three GPs in Wales licensed by the Home Office to prescribe heroin/diamorphine a 100 in the UK. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He took diamorphine and morphine sulphate from the stroke unit and morphine sulphate from Kingston Ward, Canterbury Crown Court heard. ❋ Lionheart (2007)
You are unlikely to experience violent crime, most work is a doddle now compared to being sent down mines or grafting away in asbestos-riddled factories, you're not going to get sent off to die in a muddy trench in Flanders, and when your time does come, you'll get a nice big jag of diamorphine to help push your boat out. ❋ Laban (2005)
"[That man] [needs] some diamorphine [ASAP]!" ❋ Biglong3453 (2014)
