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Report criticises health and care regulator over inspections and inconsistency.

  An interim report by the public care doctor, Penny Dash, has found the CQC is plagued by low levels of physical inspections, a lack of consistency in assessments and problems with a faltering IT system. In her report, Ms Dash said that she found...

Mother, 44 died of cancer after preventable delays in her diagnosis.

  A mother of five died of endometrial cancer hours after being admitted to A&E following preventable delays in her diagnosis. An inquest was told that a private clinic identified the cancer by ultrasound, but the report was never sent to her GP. ...

NHS Trust and worker deny causing death of woman.

  A hospital worker and an NHS trust have denied causing the death of a mental health patient who allegedly gained access to items used in 18 earlier attempts to take her own life. Benjamin Aninakwa, 52, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to...

Missed contraceptive coil left woman unable to have children.

  A woman was denied the chance to have children with her husband after a contraceptive coil was accidentally left in place for 29 years. Jayne Huddleston, from Crewe, had eight rounds of fertility treatment she did not need because the correct checks...

Berkshire NHS trust to pay £925,000 after man's substandard care.

  The family of a man who took his own life after suffering mental health problems is to receive compensation from a trust that gave him substandard care. Adam Ludlow, 37, from Tilehurst, Berkshire, a married father of two, died in September 2017. ...

Babies died after neglect at London hospital, Inquest rules.

  Two premature babies died within weeks of each other after neglect by a hospital, an inquest jury has found. Westminster Coroners’ Court heard Elena Ali and Sunny Parker-Propst were both given sodium nitrite instead of sodium bicarbonate while...

Cancer patients at risk from overstretched NHS, says NHS complaints chief

  Cancer patients could be at risk due to overstretched and "exhausted" health staff in a "system at breaking point", England's NHS ombudsman has warned.  The ombudsman, Rob Behrens' office carried out 1,019...

Grieving family says hospital failed mum who died after childbirth.

  The family of a woman who died shortly after giving birth have said she was failed by the hospital where she had her baby. Jess Hodgkinson, 26, went into cardiac arrest after her daughter Phoebe was delivered by Caesarean section at Chesterfield...

Neglect contributed to mum's death, inquest finds.

  A woman's death in hospital was from natural causes but neglect was a contributory factor, an inquest has found. Tracey Farndon, 56, died of sepsis at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, in April 2023 but the condition was not discovered...

Lucy Letby sentenced to 15th whole life term after retrial.

Former nurse Lucy Letby has been sentenced to another whole life term for trying to kill a premature baby girl. She is already in jail for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and...
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