British Police investigating hundreds of premature deaths at a hospital in Hampshire
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British police have opened a fresh criminal investigation into the deaths of hundreds of patients who died over a 14-year period at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
The care provided to patients who died at the Hampshire hospital between 1987 and 2001 will be the focus of the probe.
Three previous investigations into 92 deaths at the hospital have resulted in no charges being brought.
According to a Gosport Independent Panel report released in June last year, more than 450 elderly patients had their lives shortened, while another 200 were “probably” similarly given opioids between 1989 and 2000 without medical justification.
A general view of the exterior of Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire, southern England.
A team lead by Assistant Chief Constable Nick Downing then assessed the panel’s findings to establish if there was sufficient new evidence to support a further police investigation.
Relatives of the 456 elderly patients demanded criminal charges were brought against those responsible last year.
The General Medical Council ruled in 2010 that Dr Jane Barton, who has since retired, was guilty of multiple instances of professional misconduct relating to 12 patients who died at the hospital.
