Latest News
A nine-year-old boy who died from sepsis days after being sent home from hospital with a leaflet about flu was “erroneously discharged”, a senior coroner has concluded. Dylan Cope from Newport went to A&E at the Grange Hospital,...
A Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report has been issued by a coroner after a ten-week-old baby boy died from sepsis in Kings Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Tommy Gillman was admitted to King's Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS...
A young woman who suffered for years with severe ME died from malnutrition because of her illness, a coroner has concluded. Maeve Boothby O’Neill, 27, died in October 2021 at her home in Exeter after living with the debilitating disease, also...
Hospital staff missed two opportunities to treat a woman found dying under a coat in a crowded emergency department, a coroner has concluded. An inquest into the death of Inga Rublite, 39, found she died of natural causes but medical staff in...
Infected blood victims could each receive payments of more than £2m in a compensation scheme announced by the government. The payments follow the publication of a public inquiry report into the scandal, the biggest ever to hit the NHS, which...
The government has told the families of the Nottingham attack victims it will slow down mental health care reforms in the wake of a highly critical report on the treatment that Valdo Calocane received in the years before the killings. Dr Sanjoy...
More than 30 patients died after risks were not acted on in the decade following a controversial service redesign at a crisis-hit NHS mental health trust, according to an analysis by campaigners. The report by the Campaign...
A psychiatric patient took her own life fewer than 24 hours after being discharged from hospital without a care plan, an inquest has heard. Sarah Adams, 64, a schizophrenic, was found dead at her home in Reading on 19 May 2022. Berkshire...
Major flaws in the UK’s planning meant the Covid-19 pandemic caused more deaths and economic costs in the UK than it should have, the first report of the Covid Inquiry says. The 217-page report called for radical reform of the systems, saying...
The relatives of two women who died with herpes after giving birth are bringing clinical negligence claims against an NHS trust at the High Court. Kimberley Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulcahy, 32, died six weeks apart in 2018 after having Caesarean...
