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An NHS trust has apologised and reached a settlement with the family of a man who died an "unnecessary" death. Ralph Sims died following complications five weeks after heart surgery at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, in...
The NHS has spent £4.1bn during the last 11 years settling lawsuits involving babies who suffered brain damage during birth. The service paid out just under £3.6bn in damages in 1,307 cases in which parents were left to care...
Hospitals are burying evidence about poor care in a “cover-up culture” that leads to avoidable deaths and families being denied the truth about their loved ones, the NHS ombudsman has warned. Ministers, NHS leaders and...
A total of 109 warnings to health bodies and the government highlighting long NHS waits, staff shortages or a lack of NHS resources were sent by coroners in England and Wales in 2023, the BBC has found. Prevention of future death reports (PFDs) are...
Victims of the UK contaminated blood scandal could receive more than £2.5m compensation under a multibillion-pound scheme after a damning public inquiry report blamed the NHS and government for the tragedy. Paymaster general, John Glen,...
The contaminated blood scandal that caused thousands of people in the UK to become infected or die was avoidable and worsened by a “subtle, pervasive and chilling” cover-up by the NHS and successive governments, a...
Mental health teams who did not fully consider a patient's risk to their own life "possibly contributed" to her death, an inquest heard. Sarah Moore, 27, from Derby, was found dead less than 24 hours after a planned discharge on 20...
A care provider was fined £650,000 after a security lapse after a patient escaped from a mental health unit and was hit by a train. Matthew Caseby, 23, from London, was able to leave Priory Hospital Woodbourne, Birmingham, in 2020 by scaling a...
Doctors’ body, the BMA, has issued guidelines amid mounting concern that support staff are handling situations beyond their qualifications and ability. Physician associates (PA) should be banned from diagnosing patients and renamed...
An overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care has been called for after an inquiry into traumatic childbirths found poor standards are "all-too-frequently tolerated as normal." The Birth Trauma Inquiry, chaired by Tory MP,...
