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A construction company has been fined £330,500 after one of its workers was struck on the head and killed by a 16-ton excavator. HACS Construction Ltd, Harrogate, was fined after an investigation by the Health and Safety...
A maternity service run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has been rated inadequate by health and car regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The maternity services at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital received the lowest rating in a...
Almost 14,000 people died needlessly last year in England while waiting in A&E for up to 12 hours a new estimate suggests. Calculations by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) based on a large study of excess deaths and...
Families have shared their concerns about a mental health unit that was the subject of more than 4,600 phone calls to police during a two-year period. The BBC spoke to families about staff reportedly sleeping on shifts and poison being used by a...
An investigation has been launched into the death of a mother-of-two who became unconscious while waiting in an accident and emergency (A&E) unit. The woman was found in a chair underneath her coat on 19 January at Queen's Medical Centre,...
A health board has been fined £200,000 after a woman killed herself on one of its mental health wards. Dawn Owen, 46, attached a dressing gown cord to ligature points on her bed in April 2021 at the Hergest unit of Ysbyty Gwynedd,...
A nurse who drugged patients on a hospital stroke unit for an “easy life” and to “exercise contemptuous power” was jailed for seven years and two months. Catherine Hudson illegally sedated two patients at Blackpool Victoria...
A care provider has been fined £5,000 for "catastrophically" failing to protect a resident from falling in a prosecution bought by the health and care regulator. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) prosecuted Greystones Nursing Home Ltd, which...
A father whose wife died after childbirth believes she would still be alive if she had given birth elsewhere. Rana Abdelkarim died at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in March 2021 after suffering a bleed post-birth. The hospital has since apologised....
A coroner has issued a prevention of future deaths report after a man took his own life following inadequate care because of a shortage of mental health nurses. When the patient, Ben Hart, 25, died at his mother's home near Dover in October...
