Hospitality Industry News

Detroit man hospitalized for burns after Warren industrial accident

Nurse retires after 50 years working in Hull hospital

Stuart Harratt East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire A nurse has retired after spending 50 years working for the NHS in Hull. Gary Hewitt joined the service as a teenager in 1976 and has worked mostly in emergency medicine. His career has included…

Sophie Kasaei's boyfriend Jordan Brook in hospital and 'praying for a miracle'

TOWIE star Jordan Brook is 'praying for a miracle' as he remains in hospital. The reality TV personality, 31, has been dating Geordie Shore star Sophie Kasaei, 36, for almost three years and they have appeared on The Only Way Is Essex together.

Man who defaced Quran at Leeds hospital jailed

Fiona Callowat Leeds Magistrates' Court A man convicted of hate crimes has been jailed for 40 weeks in his absence after refusing to appear in court. Ibrahim Iqbal, 36, was previously found guilty of two counts of religiously aggravated criminal…

Deadly blasts at market and hospital raise fears of renewed Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria

Nigeria suicide bombings killed at least 23 people and wounded more than 100 others in Maiduguri, officials said Tuesday, as a Christian nonprofit leader warned the violence highlights ongoing religious persecution. The Associated Press reported…

Brit, 38, dies and girlfriend in hospital after 'drinks spiked' in Thailand

A BRITISH events organiser has died and his girlfriend has been hospitalised after their drinks were allegedly spiked in Thailand. Tom Pardhy, 38, tragically passed away in Bangkok as his partner Naomi Raksha, 31, was left in intensive care…

Gross failings at Frimley Park Hospital led to woman's death, coroner says

Joe Campbell, at Woking Coroner's Court and Dave Gilyeat, South of England Gross failings at a hospital led to a woman's preventable death from sickle cell anaemia, a coroner has said. Irene Dzifa King Arthur, 47, from Church Crookham, near Fleet…

Unpaid bill solutions must go beyond hospitals

KUALA LUMPUR: The issue of foreigners racking up millions in unpaid medical bills requires solutions that go beyond hospital walls, say health professionals. There should be stronger insurance mechanisms, employers' accountability, better…

Mapped: Michigan hospitals in concentrated markets

Nearly half of Michigan hospitals are in a highly concentrated market, according to a blog post from Yale's new Health Care Affordability Lab. Why it matters: As rising health care costs put more financial strain on Americans, 'one major and…

COMMENTARY: Hospitals know their prices, why don't patients?

Imagine walking into a doctor's office or hospital and immediately knowing the cost of care before being treated. As you check in, you see a list of prices for all their most common services — the procedures performed so often that the…

AWC unit secures contract to extend hospital support services

PETALING JAYA: AWC Bhd has bagged a RM26.1mil contract from the Health Ministry (MoH) to continue providing hospital support services at Hospital Shah Alam in Selangor. In a bourse filing, the group said its subsidiary, AWC Services Sdn Bhd (AWSB)…

Pakistan denies hospital strike in Afghanistan as death toll hits 400

Islamabad has denied the accusations of Afghanistan's Taliban government that Pakistani forces hit a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital, Kabul, saying that its strikes in the neighbouring country have avoided civilian sites.

Patients 'dying without pain relief' in hospital corridors with UK hospices in 'crisis'

Britain faces a crisis in palliative care Labour's failure to tackle the crisis facing the nation's hospices means people are dying in NHS hospital corridors “without pain relief”, the Government has been told. Hospice providers and…

Man airlifted to hospital after stabbing as police hunt attacker

A man was airlifted to hospital after he was stabbed in a residential street in South East London yesterday. Emergency services were called to St Margaret's Terrace in Plumstead shortly after 3pm on Monday, May 16, to reports of a knife attack.

New video of shooting in children's hospital parking garage

A police shooting, accusations of a double life, and a connection to a Dallas congresswoman's security team. NBC 5's Larry Collins tells us the latest.