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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...
Witnesses will be forced to give evidence at the inquiry into how Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies, the health secretary has announced, in a move demanded by victims’ families. Health secretary, Steve Barclay, announced the...
One of Britain’s biggest gym and leisure chains has been fined more than £2.5m after a three-year-old boy drowned in one of its swimming pools. David Lloyd Leisure was fined at Leeds Crown Court after the company pleaded...
Nearly half of all NHS hospital maternity services visited by a national inspection programme have been rated as substandard by health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC, which regulates health and care providers in...
A construction and telecommunication company has been fined £550,000 after a worker died after falling from a stepladder and being impaled on metal piping. Linbrooke Services Limited, Sheffield, was also ordered to pay the dead...
A domiciliary care agency described as "atrocious" by one care user's relative has been rated inadequate by health and care regulator inspectors. The agency, 42 Alexandra Road, Farnborough, Hampshire provides care calls or 24-hour live-in care...
A mentally ill man who went on a fatal stabbing spree in Birmingham had been released from prison unsupervised, a review found. Paranoid schizophrenic, Zephaniah McLeod, killed Jacob Billington, 23, and hurt seven others in five separate attacks. ...
More than 120,000 people in England are estimated to have died last year while on the NHS waiting list for hospital treatment, according to figures obtained by the Labour Party. If the figure is correct, it represents a record high number for such deaths...
Paediatrician who first raised the alarm about neonatal nurse Lucy Letby , who killed seven babies in her care, has joined calls for NHS Trust executives to be regulated in the same way as doctors. Lead paediatrician at The Countess of Chester...
A one-day old baby died from pneumonia after his mother waited three days to be seen by an obstetrician after her waters broke, a coroner said. Aayam Chongbang was delivered by Caesarean at Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent on 2 August, 2022, but died...
