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Urgent measures have been taken to address more concerns about vascular services in north Wales. Issues have been reported since Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board centralised the service at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire in 2019. After two...
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...
Ambulance bosses have apologised to the family of a man who died after he had a heart attack but no ambulance responded to take him to hospital. Martin Clark, 68, started suffering with chest pains at his home in East Sussex on 18 November 2022...
An 89-year-old man with a broken hip and shoulder and a cut head had to be taken to hospital strapped to a plank in the back of a van because there were no ambulances available. His family said that Melvyn Ryan, whose wife, Maureen, died of Covid in...
A previously outstanding care home has been ordered to improve after inspectors found residents were left at risk from unsafe care. Lancashire care home, EachStep Blackburn, was inspected by health and care...
A GP who ran an online gender identity clinic was suspended from the UK medical register for two months after a tribunal found her guilty of serious misconduct in the care of three young patients transitioning from female to male. The medical practitioners...
A baby was left "severely disabled" after a delay during his delivery by Caesarean section, a High Court judge has been told. Betsi Cadwaladr health board will pay £4m in compensation after a negligence claim was...
Topshop and its former owner Arcadia have been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for health and safety failings after a schoolboy died in an accident at one of their stores. Although Arcadia was fined just £650,000, the company could...
An estimated 1,820 people died in the UK after being given contaminated blood transfusions between 1970 and 1991, a report has found. The authors calculated that at least 26,800 people were probably infected with hepatitis C after being given the...
The NHS could be facing its largest-ever maternity scandal as the review into services at Nottingham University Hospitals Foundation Trust (NUH) is now expected to involve more than 1,500 cases, The investigation started in 2020, after The...
