Health
A nurse died more than seven years after contracting HIV while taking blood from a patient, it has emerged.
The needle slipped and nurses thumb as she took blood from the infected patient.
The Nurse died of pneumonia in January last year, aged 42.
The Scottish-born nurse was carrying out a non-emergency blood test in the hospital's Lishman Unit, which treats patients with brain injuries, at the time of the June 1999 accident.
Although the nurse was wearing gloves at the time, she was diagnosed with HIV shortly afterwards and went on to develop Aids.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded on Tuesday.
The Health Protection Agency said there had only been five reported cases of UK healthcare workers contracting HIV from patients, the last of which was in 1999.