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A "remarkably high" number of painkilling injections were prescribed to patients by doctors at a Hampshire hospital, a report has concluded.
The Department of Health investigated death rates at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1988 and 2001.
The Baker Report was held back 10 years to allow inquests to be held.
It found death rates at the hospital and the amounts of morphine and diamorphine prescribed may have "shortened life" in some cases.
Professor Richard Baker's report concluded there was an "almost routine use of opiates" at the hospital, but from the evidence studied it was not possible to establish how the practice originated.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-23553435
The Department of Health investigated death rates at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1988 and 2001.
The Baker Report was held back 10 years to allow inquests to be held.
It found death rates at the hospital and the amounts of morphine and diamorphine prescribed may have "shortened life" in some cases.
Professor Richard Baker's report concluded there was an "almost routine use of opiates" at the hospital, but from the evidence studied it was not possible to establish how the practice originated.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-23553435