Latest News
Four carers have been found guilty of ill-treating patients at a secure hospital, following a BBC Panorama investigation. Nine former staff at Whorlton Hall, near Barnard Castle, County Durham, had faced a total of 27 charges. Five of those on trial...
The NHS is facing “the greatest workforce crisis” in its history, which is putting patients at serious risk of harm, an influential group of MPs has warned. A report by the the cross-party Commons Health and Social Care Select...
Maternity services at Harrogate District Hospital have been rated as "requiring improvement" by the health and care regulator. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) found there was no clear system in place to identify risks to people in the...
An NHS trust has been fined £8,000 for failing to obtain consent from a deaf man, or his family, for hospital procedures. Health and care regulator, The Care Quality Commission (CQC) issued two fixed penalty notices to University Hospitals...
An agency midwife has been reported to the nursing regulator after a coroner raised concerns about a baby's death. The baby, Raniya Khan, died in May 2020, 19 days after she was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Senior Berkshire...
A misplaced breathing tube contributed to the death of a teenage boy who became the UK's first known child victim of COVID, a coroner has found. Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, of Brixton, southwest London, died of acute respiratory distress...
More than 500 seriously ill patients died in 2022 before they could get hospital treatment after the ambulance they requested took up to 15 hours to reach them, a Guardian newspaper investigation has revealed. The fatalities included people who had...
The parents, children, siblings and friends of thousands of people infected with HIV and hepatitis in the contaminated blood scandal should be eligible for compensation, an inquiry has ruled, with the payout likely to be the one of the largest in...
Inadequate communication, care and record keeping contributed to the death of a young man who absconded from a mental health unit, an inquest jury at Essex Coroner's Court concluded. Jayden Booroff, 23, fled Finchingfield Ward at The Linden...
A patient in a secure mental health unit died after another patient injected him with heroin smuggled in after staff failed to identify the risk he posed, an inquest ruled. Desmond Maddix, 36, died on 1 July 2017 after the other patient smuggled 10...
