Risk of dying ‘rises after ops at night’
PATIENTS operated on at night are more than twice as likely to die as those who have surgery in the day.
A five-year study also shows that those who have ops later in the working day or in the early evening are at higher risk of dying.
Research at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada, suggests people who had surgery at night were 2.17 times more likely to die as day patients in the following weeks.
More than 40,000 operations done over five years were looked at.
Study co-author Dr Ning Nan Wang, of McGill University Health Centre said: “This study demonstrates late day and night emergency surgery is associated with higher mortality.”
Researchers said possible causes include tired medics and night staffing issues.
SHAMELESS Sir Philip Green laid into the Mirror yesterday for reporting that he was enjoying a five-week luxury holiday while BHS closed.
“Aren’t you bored?” he asked. Sir Philip, 64, lashed out after spending the day holed up on his £100million yacht off the Italian island of Capri, as former BHS workers faced finding a job.
Many former staff 1,000 miles away had voluntarily returned to their closed stores to carry out final clearing-up duties.
But there’s still no deal from Sir Philip to fill a £571million hole in their pension.
All Sir Philip seemed worried about was our determination to hold him to account.
In a phone call to the Mirror, he whined: “You people keep writing the same thing day after day. What are you going to write in three days? Aren’t you gonna be bored?”
He added: “You’ve been rude for three months, so what changed?”
One change yesterday morning was that the last 22 BHS stores remained shut after closing for the last time on Sunday, after 88 years on Britain’s high street.
But Sir Philip’s floating palace Lionheart remained in business, anchored in the Mediterranean with its 40 staff, including a chef and a dog walker. There have been calls for the tycoon – dubbed Sir Philip Greed and Sir Shifty – to sell the yacht to help plug the huge pension deficit.
Sir Philip’s glamorous wife Lady Tina, 67, was spotted yesterday popping out on a boat at 2pm with her dog to collect two friends – a man and a woman.
But her husband stayed hidden behind black smoked glass on the top deck.
On Sunday, Topshop heiress Chloe Green, 23, was spotted soaking up the sun with pals at an exclusive St Tropez beach club on the French Riviera.
Former BHS worker Hannah Cullen, also 23, who worked for the firm for six years, said: “This is absolutely scandalous.
“Thousands of BHS workers are getting ready to go to the job centre and we don’t know how we’re going to pay our bills.
“Yet Sir Philip is still living the high life as though nothing has happened.”
Billionaire Green bought BHS and more than 170 stores in 2000. He sold the firm – which began in Brixton, South London, in 1928 – to a group of investors led by three-times bankrupt Dominic Chappell for a nominal £1 last year. The company’s collapse in April led to a lengthy parliamentary inquiry. A report by Labour MP Frank Field, co-chairman of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, said Sir Philip had plundered vast sums from its coffers in an act he described as “evil”. Field has also accused Green of being an “asset stripper”. Thousands of Mirror readers have called for Green to be stripped of his knighthood. The Pensions Regulator is probing dealings of the Arcadia Group, Green family subsidiaries and Lady Tina, who controls the family fortune. Green reportedly wants the investigation dropped in exchange for a “voluntary contribution” to ex-employees’ pension pots. The Serious Fraud Office has said a criminal probe could be launched if the director considers there are reasonable grounds to suspect fraud. Green denies any wrongdoing.