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A man who took his own life might have been saved if mental health crisis referrals were improved, a coroner said. Nigel Hammond, who was suffering from advanced lymphoma, died in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 14 March 2024, three...
The family of a mother who died from cervical cancer after twice being wrongly told she had negative results have been awarded undisclosed damages. The misreporting of Louise Gleadell's cervical screening results was admitted by University...
A senior coroner has called on three organisations to take action to prevent future deaths after a man was killed outside his home in Birmingham. In her Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report, Birmingham and Solihull senior coroner, Louise...
A woman died of sepsis after being “abandoned” for ten hours on a hospital trolley in a busy A&E corridor, an inquest was told. Tamara Davis, 31, was left to “fend for herself” as she coughed up blood in the corridor of...
The family of a 92-year-old woman who hospital staff failed to care for properly before she died said they believe she would have been safer at home. Margaret Clement, from Burnley, suffered a massive gastrointestinal bleed while she was at Pendle...
A national investigation into NHS maternity services in England has been launched by health secretary, Wes Streeting, saying that “maternity units are failing, hospitals are failing, trusts are failing, regulators are failing”...
There were "gross failings" in management at a care home where a 96-year-old woman with dementia died from hypothermia, a jury inquest has found. Joan Chapman, who lived at Coombe End Court care home, Marlborough, was found dead by...
Action must be taken at a hospital where a suicidal man fell to his death, a coroner has warned. Aaron Deeley, 43, a patient at at Southend University Hospital died in January 2022 after falling from a second-floor window, which was...
A nurse who was found to have put patients at risk has been suspended for a year. Nimmy George worked as an adult nurse at a Cumbrian hospital for nine months before she was referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). An NMC panel...
The NHS is carrying out an assessment of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) services across England after the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, whose case highlighted a lack of understanding and inability to care for sufferers of the illness. The...
