IN TEN YEARS, UNDER PRO-NHS LABOUR RULE, NHS DEATHS DUE TO BAD DRUGS HAVE DOUBLED

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The number of patients killed by drugs handed out by the Health Service has more than doubled during Labour's time in power, official figures show.

There were 1,299 deaths caused by adverse reactions last year - up from 520 in 1998, and up by more than a quarter on the figure of 1,030 recorded the year before.

The figures show that in 2008 a total of 25,424 reports of adverse reactions were made - up by 17 per cent in one year and by 41 per cent in a decade.

Of these patients, 4,487 had to stay in hospital for several days due to side effects from medication - around the same as last year but up by more than 50 per cent on 1998.

The figures, received by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, mainly relate to prescription drugs but also cover adverse reactions to over-the-counter and herbal medicines.

Experts blamed failures in the training of hospital doctors and Labour's decision to hand greater prescribing powers to nurses.

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