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A hospital and one of its managers are facing a criminal investigation into the death of a vulnerable man who absconded by climbing a fence. An inquest concluded failings amounting to neglect contributed to the death of Matthew Caseby in 2020,...
Five healthcare staff have been charged with criminal offences as part of a major investigation into the ill-treatment of hospital patients. Concerns had been raised about the welfare of some patients on the stroke unit at Blackpool Victoria...
The death of a baby boy only hours after his mother was turned away from a maternity unit was due to natural causes "contributed to by neglect" and "gross failure", a coroner has ruled. The baby, Archie Batten, died on 1...
A woman whose partner died after having an AstraZeneca jab has become the first person to receive compensation following a Covid vaccine death. Vikki Spit's former rock singer fiancé Zion, 48, of Alston, Cumbria, fell ill eight days after...
More than 200 hospital patients underwent mesh bowel operations they might not have needed, a review has found. Most of the surgery intended to fix prolapsed bowels was carried out by surgeon Tony Dixon, who was dismissed in 2019. One patient,...
A solicitor representing 350 families who lost loved ones to Covid has said it is likely that legal action will be taken against the Welsh government. The announcement follows a High Court ruling that discharging patients to care homes in England...
A woman who visited doctors for five years with constant pain was eventually told it was pancreatic cancer and she had only six months to live. After two rounds of chemotherapy, Elaine Hill-Clement, 61, from Cardiff decided to stop treatment and...
A teenager with a severe nut allergy died partly because of human error, a coroner has ruled. Ms Shante Turay-Thomas, 18, from London had a severe reaction to eating a hazelnut. The inquest into her death heard a series of failures meant that an...
A teenager with a severe nut allergy died partly because of human error, a coroner has ruled. Ms Shante Turay-Thomas, 18, from London had a severe reaction to eating a hazelnut. The inquest into her death heard a series of failures meant that an...
The way that police restrained a man who was ill after taking amphetamines contributed "more than minimally" to his death, an inquest jury found. Leon Briggs, 39, a father of two, died in November 2013 after being detained at Luton police station...
