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The family of a woman, who was the seventh person in seven years to take her own life by the same means at units run by an NHS trust, said it "shouldn't have happened.” Azra Hussain, 41, died at the secure accommodation at Mary...
Urgent action has been taken against a women's mental health hospital that had a "toxic" culture and put patients at risk, the health regulator has confirmed. Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors found Cygnet Appletree, Durham,...
Two mothers who died of herpes after giving birth could have been infected by a single surgeon, the BBC has found. Their families, who were told there was no connection between the deaths of the women who underwent Caesarean sections by the surgeon...
The man who organised the flight that killed footballer Emiliano Sala, and pilot David Ibbotson, has been jailed for 18 months. David Henderson, 67, of Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, was convicted in October (2021) of recklessly endangering the...
The organiser of the airplane flight in which footballer Emiliano Sala died has been found guilty of endangering the safety of an aircraft. Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, died in the crash in the English Channel in January 2019. The flight...
A resident at a "luxury riverside care home" physically and sexually assaulted other residents and staff 24 times, according to an inspection report. The Amwell care home, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, was criticised for failing to...
A schizophrenic patient died from an overdose after failings by staff at a psychiatric unit, an inquest jury at Avon Coroner's Court ruled. The patient, Abdelslam Benelghazi, 37, had drug problems and was sectioned by the Avon and Wiltshire Mental...
It may take more than a decade to clear the backlog in patients requiring specialist treatment for cancer-treatment in England, a report suggests. Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) estimated that 19,500 people have...
A 69-year-old woman died in hospital after becoming unwell at a unit ran by Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. A review found Margaret Molyneux was given high doses of the anti-psychotic drug olanzapine at a mental health unit,...
A thousand babies die preventable deaths every year in England because a culture of shifting blame and keeping quiet means lessons are not learned after mistakes on NHS maternity wards, a report by MPs has said. Almost two in five childbirth units still...
