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Significant failings by hospital staff led to unnecessary suffering for a cancer patient before her death, a Public Services Ombudsman report concluded. Ann Jones, 69, of Rhyl, died in August 2019, with bowel cancer but the ombudsman found that...
A leading appliance brand should have acted more quickly to stop the sale of cookers linked to 18 deaths in the UK and Ireland, a coroner has concluded. Assistant Cornwall coroner, Geraint Williams, said Beko was too slow to react when it learned...
Health and safety executive (HSE) investigations are continuing into the cause of an explosion at a wastewater treatment works that killed four people. Three Wessex Water employees and a contractor were killed in the blast in a silo that held...
A ctor Jamie King has lost a High Court bid for damages against an NHS trust after claiming he lost work and missed out on the chance of a role in the film Dunkirk when his five-day-old son died. His son, Benjamin King, died from severe brain damage...
A man was left in a care home for five months without regard for "basic human rights", an investigation has found. The Nottinghamshire man, who had dementia, was placed in the home for two weeks as respite for his family. But...
Almost one million women in the UK have missed vital breast screening due to coronavirus, a leading charity has estimated. Breast screening programmes were paused in March 2020 as the NHS focused resources on tackling the pandemic. ...
A seven-year-old boy was killed after being electrocuted while playing in a pub garden, a court was told. Harvey Tyrrell suffered a fatal shock at King Harold pub, Romford, east London, when he touched a poorly installed outdoor light on September...
A newborn baby was left with severe disabilities after he was starved of oxygen for 100 minutes following a series of medical errors. Josiah Ellis was born without a pulse and had to be resuscitated after medics at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley,...
A newborn baby was left with severe disabilities after he was starved of oxygen for 100 minutes following a series of medical errors. Josiah Ellis was born without a pulse and had to be resuscitated after medics at Russells Hall Hospital,...
More than a dozen women and more than 40 babies died during childbirth at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust because of a culture that denied women choice and subjected hundreds of families to unsafe care, an official report into the NHS’s...
