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The contaminated blood scandal that caused thousands of people in the UK to become infected or die was avoidable and worsened by a “subtle, pervasive and chilling” cover-up by the NHS and successive governments, a...
Mental health teams who did not fully consider a patient's risk to their own life "possibly contributed" to her death, an inquest heard. Sarah Moore, 27, from Derby, was found dead less than 24 hours after a planned discharge on 20...
A care provider was fined £650,000 after a security lapse after a patient escaped from a mental health unit and was hit by a train. Matthew Caseby, 23, from London, was able to leave Priory Hospital Woodbourne, Birmingham, in 2020 by scaling a...
Doctors’ body, the BMA, has issued guidelines amid mounting concern that support staff are handling situations beyond their qualifications and ability. Physician associates (PA) should be banned from diagnosing patients and renamed...
An overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care has been called for after an inquiry into traumatic childbirths found poor standards are "all-too-frequently tolerated as normal." The Birth Trauma Inquiry, chaired by Tory MP,...
Babies are at risk of harm at a maternity unit judged to have "poor governance and ineffective systems", the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), says. The facility at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire,...
A baby boy who lived for only 14 hours died from Group B Strep after "total and complete failures" in his care, an inquest has ruled. Zachary Taylor-Smith developed breathing problems and died in November 2022 after what his parents called...
A surgeon sacked by a hospital after raising safety concerns has accused the trust of a cover-up after a patient was partially blinded during an operation. Juanita Graham, 41, lost the sight in her left eye during an operation at Bath's Royal United...
Maternity services in Manchester must make significant improvements after a deterioration in care, inspectors said. Managers at Wythenshawe and North Manchester General Hospitals were "not always assured staff were competent", a Care...
A family has been awarded compensation after the death of a hospital patient who was not fed for nine days. The man, 56, who had Down's syndrome and dementia, died from pneumonia at Poole Hospital in 2021. The hospital's "shocking...
