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A collaborative approach agreed between three professional bodies in designing and operating the Covid-19 Clinical Negligence Claims Protocol has created savings benefiting the NHS and patients. The innovative approach agreed between NHS Resolution,...
Eighteen people died at two Teesside hospital trusts following patient safety lapses during just 12 months. Sixteen deaths were recorded at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and two at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. The NHS...
A health has accepted responsibility for a boy's brain injury after he contracted an infection following his birth. Adam Cheshire, 11, contracted a Group B Strep (GBS) infection at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, in 2011. A High Court judge approved...
A coroner has expressed concern at the difficulty of getting face-to-face appointments with GPs and other health professionals after a teenage boy suffering from mental health problems was found dead. Sean Mark, 17, who described himself as an...
Black and Asian women are being harmed as a result of racial discrimination in UK maternity care, according to the finds of an inquiry. The 12-month investigation into "racial injustice" was conducted by the charity Birthrights. Women...
An audit has revealed that the mortality rate in the UK for women during pregnancy, or within a year of giving birth, is more than 5% above the average recorded in other countries. A national audit revealed that 23 were given the rating for 2020,...
A pregnant woman who died after being given the wrong dosage of drugs was one of almost 6,000 people harmed, and 29 killed, following prescription errors in the NHS in England last year. Figures from NHS England show that 98 hospital trusts...
A widow whose husband contracted an infection following a ‘world-first’ heart-lung transplant said she wants answers from the hospital that cared for him. Aaron Green, of Arundel, West Sussex, had the pioneering surgery at Royal Papworth...
A YORK dentist is working under supervision while her professional body investigates “serious and wide-ranging concerns” about her and her practice. The investigation followed a whistleblower making a series of claims about Dr Jenny...
A scandal-hit NHS trust where staff felt pressure to admit patients on to wards when it was unsafe, must improve, health and care regulator inspectors have said. Too few staff in some areas at Southern Health led to "low morale" and meant...
