LYNNE WALLIS: I ve never had to give anyone as much sedative as that before, the anaesthetist remarked as I came round from my knee replacement surgery last October.
Letter from Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to ministers, providing advice on independent prescribing of controlled drugs by paramedics.
Letter from ACMD to ministers, providing advice on the administration rights of morphine by injection for therapeutic radiographer independent prescribers.
As Sheena Mason-White left hospital five days after undergoing major spinal surgery last June, a doctor handed her a paper bag full of medicines to aid her recovery.