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A leading spinal surgeon’s botched operations left patients with serious blood loss, long-term pain and mobility problems, a damning report has revealed. The report found that John Bradley Williamson’s “unacceptable and...
A hospital trust failed to send out 24,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and their GPs after they became lost in a new computer system. Newcastle Hospitals warned the problem, dating back to 2018, is significant. The BBC said that it was...
A teenager who died after an attempt to end their life in hospital while waiting for a mental health bed was repeatedly failed, a coroner concluded. Madeleine Savory, 15, died at Ipswich Hospital, Suffolk, in February 2022 and the coroner said...
A critical report has been issued to a health board amid concerns it did not address failings after a patient died. North Wales coroner, Kate Sutherland, issued a prevention of future deaths notice to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board ahead...
The former manager of a care home has been ordered to pay more than £55,000 after the deaths of two residents. One patient, Patricia Sutton, 77, died after choking at Rossendale Nursing Home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, in November 2019 and...
Police are investigating possible corporate manslaughter at the hospital where serial killer Lucy Letby worked. The former nurse, 33, was jailed in August for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester...
Witnesses will be forced to give evidence at the inquiry into how Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies, the health secretary has announced, in a move demanded by victims’ families. Health secretary, Steve Barclay, announced the...
One of Britain’s biggest gym and leisure chains has been fined more than £2.5m after a three-year-old boy drowned in one of its swimming pools. David Lloyd Leisure was fined at Leeds Crown Court after the company pleaded...
Nearly half of all NHS hospital maternity services visited by a national inspection programme have been rated as substandard by health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC, which regulates health and care providers in...
A construction and telecommunication company has been fined £550,000 after a worker died after falling from a stepladder and being impaled on metal piping. Linbrooke Services Limited, Sheffield, was also ordered to pay the dead...
