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Parents who spent a decade campaigning for answers about their baby's death said the findings at his second inquest were "everything we fought for." Eight-week-old Ben Condon died in 2015 at Bristol Children's Hospital, six days...
Children as young as three have suffered traumatic side effects from a blockbuster asthma drug now under review by the UK drugs regulator. Families say asthma patients, including many children, are not properly warned of the risks from the commonly...
The care of women and babies at two Leeds hospitals presents a significant risk to their safety, the NHS health and care regulator says after the preventable deaths of dozens of newborns. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) demanded urgent...
A doctor who carried out hundreds of complex surgeries on shoulders and elbows did not have the "necessary" competencies to carry out the treatment, a review has found. The report was commissioned by Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust...
A coroner has issued a warning about the role of physician associates in NHS hospitals after a woman with severe abdominal problems was wrongly diagnosed as having a nosebleed and died four days later. The family of Pamela Marking, 77, were under...
A baby boy "almost certainly would not have died when he did" if his rare heart condition had been diagnosed, an inquest has found. Archie Squire suffered heart failure days after his first birthday and died in November 2023 after...
Ten people have died from cancer and up to 10 more have been diagnosed with the disease after a blunder meant they were not invited to NHS screening programmes. Health officials failed to invite more than 5,000 patients for routine checks after an...
IT failures have been linked to the deaths of three patients and more than 100 instances of serious harm at NHS hospital trusts in England, BBC News has found. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request also found 200,000 medical letters had gone...
A woman has been awarded more than £500,000 in compensation after childbirth left her with a permanent stoma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Amy Stead, 37, suffered a severe tear while giving birth at the Wrexham Maelor...
The parents of a three-year-old boy who died from severe bleeding after his artery was pierced during surgery said they spent 12 months fighting for answers about what happened. Aarav Chopra, from Wolverhampton, suffered a build-up of blood in his...
