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Patients have been significantly harmed, including suffering permanent damage to their liver, after being given accidental overdoses of paracetamol in hospital. The NHS safety watchdog, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), has launched...
A maternity service has been told to make improvements after several whistleblowers raised concerns. The service, at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester, was inspected by health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Inspectors said...
A mother of three was awarded £3.2m compensation after delays in treating an eye condition led to her going permanently blind. The woman, in her 30s, was not seen by a consultant for more than 18 months after she first noticed her sight failing, by...
More than 500 people in the UK were put on do-not-resuscitate orders without their, or their carers', consent during the coronavirus pandemic , according to a study by England's health and care watchdog. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) study ...
A woman has received £500,000 compensation after her endometriosis went undiagnosed for 17 years Frances Bell was 14 when she first went to hospital with symptoms in 1997 but was told she had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). She eventually received a...
A hospital accused of failing to disclose that a 30-year-old mother of two had died after a paracetamol overdose given while she was in its care is under police investigation. Merseyside police force is looking into the circumstances surrounding the death...
Businessman, Richard Branson, is being sued for more than £200,000 by a cancer victim. Shop fitter Bernard Jones, 74, claims he became terminally ill with malignant mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos while working at Virgin Records'...
A woman who claimed she would have had an abortion if she had known her father had a fatal, inherited brain condition has failed in her bid to sue the NHS. She claimed three NHS Trusts owed her a duty of care to tell her about her father's...
A disabled woman whose brain was starved of oxygen after an operation to remove all her teeth would probably have survived if care home staff had acted sooner, an inquest heard. Staff at Pirton Grange Care Home, near Worcester, failed to spot Rachel...
A five year-old boy who died after undergoing surgery 43 years ago suffered a "gross failure of care", a coroner has ruled. The boy, Carl Marrows, who had spina bifida, died from "massive blood loss" after the operation in Scunthorpe in...
