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A mother has won a legal battle to ensure her teenage son has the right to a potentially life-saving kidney transplant. Ami McLennan, from Lancaster, had argued a transplant was 17-year-old William's only chance, as he would have only 12 months...
An inadequate care firm, which looks after people in their own homes, put clients at risk of avoidable harm and failed to obtain required recruitment information for some staff, inspectors found. A report said My Homecare Reading did not run...
An autistic woman took her own life following "systemic failings" in her care, a coroner has concluded. Zoe Zaremba, 25, was found dead near her home after being misdiagnosed with a personality disorder. An inquest in Northallerton heard...
Partners, children, siblings and parents of patients infected in the NHS contaminated blood scandal are anxiously waiting to discover if they will be eligible for compensation. Although the government has confirmed...
More needs to be done to bring maternity units at Nottingham’s two main hospitals up to standard, health regulator inspectors have said. A new report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) into Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust says that...
A patient who took his own life on a mental health ward died after "neglect" from a hospital trust, a coroner has said. Mick Woods, 66, of Walton-on-the-Naze, died on Christmas Day in 2020 at the King's Wood Centre, Colchester. Essex...
More than 4,000 surviving victims of the NHS scandal of giving patients blood contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C should receive provisional compensation of £100,000 each, a judge has said . Infected blood public inquiry chairman, Sir Brian...
Multiple failings within a prison could have contributed to a man killing himself hours after arriving there, an inquest found. Prisoner Justin Still, 39, was found dead in his cell at HMP Bullingdon near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 6 April 2019. An...
A care home provider has been fined £1.5m after a resident choked to death at a West Sussex home. Health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) brought the prosecution against Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd, which runs Mill...
A hospital patient would have not suffered a "massive" stroke if she had been given the correct drug to reduce blood clots, a High Court judge has ruled. The High Court found that Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, breached its duty of...
