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A woman cancer patient has won her case after taking health managers to court after they twice refused to pay for her surgery. Maria Wallpott, of Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly county, Wales, had stage four appendix cancer which had spread to her...
Garden landscaping supplies firm Deco-Pak, Hipperholme, has been found guilty of corporate manslaughter after a member of staff was crushed to death by a robotic arm. The jury at Bradford Crown Court heard that maintenance engineer, Andrew...
Inadequate staffing and confusion about ‘restricted items’, such as plastic bags, led to a 25-year-old computer programmer taking his own life in a mental health trust, an inquest ruled. The inquest jury found that Joshua Sahota, 25,...
Manchester City cannot be held responsible for the abuse suffered by eight men from football scout, and convicted paedophile, Barry Bennell , almost 40 years ago, according to a high court ruling. The claimants, now in their 40s and 50s, said...
A celebrated doctor would have "almost certainly survived" if an ambulance was not delayed, his son has claimed. Prof Kailash Chand, 73, a former leader of the British Medical Association who had been awarded an OBE, died after suffering a...
A mental health unit was rated inadequate for the second time in four months after it failed to address patient safety risks. St John's House in Palgrave, Suffolk, had been in special measures since a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection ...
Inspectors from the health and care regulator who raised concerns about deficient infection control in a hospital A&E department said staff did not always wash their hands between patients. The inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC)...
Research has started to apply artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of reducing risk to pregnant black women. Experts at Loughborough University are working with independent safety body, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), to...
An autistic man, Ryan Clarke, who has spent almost half his life detained in a mental health hospital, has been released after a long campaign by his mother. Ryan Clarke was originally diagnosed with schizophrenia, but received a revised diagnosis...
A Yorkshire bathroom company has been fined £40,000 for health and safety failings after a member of staff suffered series head injuries after a three-tonne piece of equipment was blown onto him. Harrison Bathrooms, which bas a warehouse in...
