A barrage of questions fills Regina Discenza's head every time she thinks about what her parents, Charles and Madeline Costantino, suffered through two years ago as COVID-19 swept through the New...
Pennsylvania fracking water contamination much higher than reported
The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no...
Audit Office criticises Health Department’s handling of $15b pharmacy deal
The federal health department has been criticised by the Australian National Audit Office for its administration of a $15 billion agreement with pharmacists. The audit office identified several...
NHS Trust fined £200,000 over death of a diabetic patient who was not given insulin due to poor recordkeeping (UK)
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust has been fined £200,000 for the 'avoidable' death of a 66-year-old diabetic who was not given insulin due to poor record-keeping. ... She was assessed on...
Shambolic recordkeeping by the NHS wastes money and endangers patients (UK)
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The ObamaCare website failure was inevitable
Federal information systems are rife with dysfunction, costing taxpayers billions. [Commentary] Dysfunctional information systems are endemic in the federal government. Officials' incessant talk...
Probe into 25 deaths after trust admits ‘poor records’ (UK)
The deaths of 25 patients are under review by one of the UK's biggest NHS trusts, after it admitted "poor record keeping". Westminster and two other London local authorities have expressed "extreme...
Inquiry call over missing NHS records
More than 100 health records - almost half of them in NHS Grampian - went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included personal details of children and sensitive health information,...
PG&E fined nearly $20m for safety lapses in Contra Costa County
State regulators Thursday upheld a $16.8 million fine against PG&E for failing to inspect East Bay pipelines for gas leaks. The fine, which PG&E had appealed to the Public Utilities...
NSW Auditor slams agency contract extensions (AUS)
A recent audit by the NSW Audit Office criticised two state agencies for lack of transparency in contracting. NSW Police and NSW Health failed to produce records justifying a range of contract...
Red Cross fined $9.6m for sloppy recordkeeping
PHILADELPHIA - January 17, 2012 (WPVI) -- A$9.6-million fine has been lodged against the Red Cross because of problems that federal inspectors found in Philadelphia. The government says the...