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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...
Hospitals in England will be offered funding from next month (April 2024) to introduce "Martha's rule", the NHS has announced. The government has backed plans to introduce a system giving seriously ill patients easy access to a...
A GP practice with surgeries in West Sussex has been placed into special measures after an inspection by the health and care regulator. Modality Mid Sussex, which has sites in Crawley, Burgess Hill and two in East Grinstead, was created by the...
A woman died from cervical cancer after abnormalities were missed following two routine smear tests, an inquest heard. Mother-of-two Linda Strode, 54, of Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, died on 2 January 2023 after being diagnosed with untreatable stage...
A South London hospital has been fined £140,000 after an investigation found it failed to ensure the safety of a 21-year-old woman who took her own life ten years ago. Francesca Whyatt, of Knutsford in Cheshire, was a patient on The Priory...
The owner of an inflatable trampoline, which burst killing a three-year-old girl after throwing her 40ft in the air, was jailed for six months for health and safety offences. According to witnesses, Ava-May Littleboy was thrown “the height of...
