Investigations are continuing after hundreds of patients at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital died after being given opiates inappropriately between 1987 and 2001. News you can trust since 1877.

Gosport War Memorial Hospital: Families to meet solicitor amid hopes of criminal prosecutions. By David George. Published 20th Aug 2021, 04:55 BST. Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Bury Rd, Gosport.

Detectives involved in the long-running Operation Magenta are focusing on events that occurred at Gosport War Memorial Hospital over a 14-year period.. In 2018 an independent report said at least ...

Relatives of people who died at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital say they are still searching for answers . Operation Magenta is one of the largest and most complex police inquiries in UK history.

It is thought more than 450 people had their lives cut short at Gosport War Memorial Hospital by the drugs, with another 200 "probably" given similar opioids, between 1989 and 2000.

Gosport War Memorial Hospital staff to be interviewed under caution over hundreds of deaths. More than 450 elderly patients died at the Hampshire site between 1987 and 2001 after being given ...

Police officers have started sending case files to the Crown Prosecution Service as part of the ‘largest and most complex’ investigation into the Gosport War Memorial hospital deaths.

Clifford Houghton, 71, was admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital in February. He died on the same day he was given two doses of diamorphine because of “deterioration”.

A review of the deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1988 and 2000 found an "almost routine use of opiates had almost certainly" shortened the lives of some patients.

In 2018 the Gosport Independent Panel report concluded that the lives of more than 450 people had been shortened because of the routine practice of prescribing and administering opioids until the ...

At least 456 patients died after being given powerful painkillers inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire between 1989 and 2000, an inquiry previously found.