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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
An international lung expert was beaten to death by his son who escaped from a psychiatric hospital after the health board ignored repeated warnings from the victim and his wife, believing they were abusing their position as doctors to get...
A new mother in a in north Wales hospital was confused for another patient and mistakenly fitted with contraceptive coil after a Caesarean section operation. Meanwhile, another patient in north Wales almost had the wrong toe removed during surgery...
Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen again in a new low recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey. More than 3,000 people were polled by the National Centre for Social Research across England, Wales and Scotland last...
A two-week-old baby died because a “gross failure to provide basic medical attention” meant a blood disorder was not identified in his mother, a senior coroner has ruled. Orlando Davis suffered a fatal brain injury when he was born by...
The NHS paid out tens of millions of pounds after maternity failings at a hospital trust which is the subject of a major inquiry. A total of £101m, including legal fees, was paid in claims against Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) between...
