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An NHS hospital trust in Nottingham failed to send more than 400,000 digital letters and documents to GPs and patients. The trust says a full investigation took place in 2017 and found no significant harm to patients but it has now said it will...
A nurse at one of the country's worst rated children's wards has been found guilty of misconduct concerning her treatment of a vulnerable toddler. The child, Jorgie Stanton-Watts, 23 months, died from dehydration and sepsis after a series of...
A man died after hospital staff missed "multiple chances" to detect his cancer, an inquest has heard. Paul Johnson's illness went undiagnosed for two years after a scan at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital first detected a...
A mental health trust is to be prosecuted by the health and care regulator after three patients died in its care. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is bringing charges against the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys (TEWV) NHS Trust. It is thought the...
Mothers and their babies were put "at risk" due to problematic staffing levels at a hospital trust, the health and care regulator found. Unannounced inspections by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found several areas of concern at...
Neglect contributed to a baby's death at the hospital where he was born, a coroner has ruled. The coroner found gross failures by midwives and consultants at Darent Valley Hospital, Kent, where Jasper Brooks was born on 15 April 2021 and said...
There is growing concern for people living with diabetes after a major charity report said that delayed routine health checks may have contributed to 7,000 more deaths than usual in England last year. The routine checks help cut the risk of serious...
A man died after waiting 47 minutes at his Bradford home for an ambulance after a heart attack. Paul Dawson, 62, fell ill in the early hours of 3 April this year. His wife called 999 four times before paramedics arrived, by which time he was in...
Inquests into the deaths of a further 10 patients of jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson have been opened and adjourned. Paterson is currently serving a 20-year sentence after he carried out unnecessary or unapproved procedures on more than 1,000...
A young woman patient, who was living with autism, died after opportunities were missed to place her in a psychiatric hospital closer to her home, an inquest jury has found. Lauren Bridges, 20, from Bournemouth, who had previously begged to be...
