YOUR DAILY NHS HORROR STORY: FOREIGN GP KILLS PATIENT

THE NHS HAS PROBLEMS STAFFING THEIR HOSPITALS AND CARING PROPERLY FOR PATIENTS; THE PROBLEMS AREN'T JUST SCHEDULING APPOINTMENTS; SOMETIMES IT KILLS:

TELEGRAPH: Family urge NHS investigation into foreign GPs after father's death

The family of a man who died when a German doctor gave him a massive overdose while working his first shift in Britain have called on the NHS to suspend all foreign out-of-hours doctors until the system has been "overhauled".

Dr Daniel Ubani on his first shift providing out-of-hours cover for GPs, killed a patient by giving him 10 times the normal recommended dose of a pain-killing drug.

Daniel Ubani, from Witten, Germany, gave 70-year-old David Gray 10 times the dose of diamorphine for kidney pains after confusing it with moderate painkiller pethidine.

Mr Gray died at his home in Manea, Cambridgeshire, just three hours later on February 16 2008.

Dr Ubani, who was employed as a locum to provide out-of-hours GP cover, blamed the mistake on tiredness as he had only flown into the UK the night before and had had just three hours rest.

The death has raised serious concerns over the current system of out-of-hours care provided by private firms on behalf of NHS primary care trusts across the country.

Dr Ubani was also investigated over the death of a second patient on the same day – a 86-year-old woman who suffered a heart attack just two hours after being treated by the Nigerian-born doctor.

Cambridgeshire Police prepared a case against Dr Ubani over her death but the Crown Prosecution Service decided no charges should be brought.

THE NHS IS RIFE WITH PROBLEMS, BUT OBAMA ANS THE LEFT WOULD HAVE YOU THINK THAT NATIONALIZATION IS A PANACEA.

DON'T BE DUPED.