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A police investigation is being launched into failings that led to dozens of baby deaths and injuries at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. The trust’s maternity units are already being examined in a review by senior midwife,...
The inquest into the death of a student rugby player has ruled that hospital neglect contributed to her death. Maddy Lawrence, 20, died from an infection at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, in March 2022, a fortnight after she dislocated her hip during...
Police are investigating possible corporate manslaughter at the hospital where serial killer Lucy Letby worked. The former nurse, 33, was jailed in August for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester...
Patients with heart attack symptoms are not being seen quickly enough at a Swansea emergency department, a report has found. Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) has reported 25 areas where improvements were necessary at Morriston Hospital. Delays...
Inadequate responses from agencies, the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police may have contributed to a teenage boy's suicide, an inquest jury found. Samuel Howes, 17, from Purley, southeast London, died on a railway in Croydon in...
A leading spinal surgeon’s botched operations left patients with serious blood loss, long-term pain and mobility problems, a damning report has revealed. The report found that John Bradley Williamson’s “unacceptable and...
A hospital trust failed to send out 24,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and their GPs after they became lost in a new computer system. Newcastle Hospitals warned the problem, dating back to 2018, is significant. The BBC said that it was...
A teenager who died after an attempt to end their life in hospital while waiting for a mental health bed was repeatedly failed, a coroner concluded. Madeleine Savory, 15, died at Ipswich Hospital, Suffolk, in February 2022 and the coroner said...
A critical report has been issued to a health board amid concerns it did not address failings after a patient died. North Wales coroner, Kate Sutherland, issued a prevention of future deaths notice to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board ahead...
The former manager of a care home has been ordered to pay more than £55,000 after the deaths of two residents. One patient, Patricia Sutton, 77, died after choking at Rossendale Nursing Home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, in November 2019 and...
