lord norton on what next for the government and brexit.ents at the gosport war memorial hospital — where hundreds of elderly patients had their lives cut short — were "tragic and deeply troubling." an inquiry has found that the patients died because of what it says was an institutionalised regime of prescribing dangerous doses of powerful painkilling drugs when there was no medical justification to do so. the health and social care secretary told the commons that the report into the suspicious deaths at the hospital between 1989 and 2000 was truly shocking. the panel found that over the period, the lives of over a50 patients were shortened by clinically inappropriate use of opioid analgesics. with an additional 200 lives also likely to have been shortened if missing medical records are taken into account. the first concerns were raised by brave nurse whistle—blowers in 1991, but then systematically ignored. families first raised concerns in 1998, and they too were ignored. nothing i say today will lessen the anguish and pain of families wh