A man has been given a 22-week curfew order and made to pay £450 after inspecting gas work at an Indian restaurant when he was not qualified to do so.
Risk ‘minimal’ at bug-hit hospital
NHS Highland sought to reassure healthy patients, visitors and staff that the risk of Clostridium difficile infection was “minimal” after it was confirmed that an eighth person had contracted the bug at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
Health board admits safety failings
A health board’s failure to put in place a strategy to safely manage and control the risks of exposure to bacteria led to a woman contracting Legionnaires’ disease, a court has been told.
Deadly bacteria on hospital tap
A bacterium found on water taps that was responsible for four baby deaths in Northern Ireland has been found in another of the country’s hospitals.
Woman injured by chemical leak
A chemical leak at a Highland industrial plant has created a risk of exposure to ammonia.
Poor hygiene leads to £54,000 fine
A fine of £54,000 has been imposed on the owners of a Greenwich restaurant which repeatedly breached food hygiene laws.
Baby death bacteria traced to taps
Pseudomonas bacteria which killed three babies in a Belfast hospital has been traced to taps in the neo-natal unit, it has been revealed.
Bacteria ward to undergo deep clean
A neonatal room housing extremely premature and small babies is to be emptied and deep-cleaned after three died from an infection.
Baby-deaths hospital deep cleaned
The Belfast hospital where three babies died has now been deep cleaned and no new cases of the pseudomonas infection have been discovered.