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An audit has revealed that the mortality rate in the UK for women during pregnancy, or within a year of giving birth, is more than 5% above the average recorded in other countries. A national audit revealed that 23 were given the rating for 2020,...
A pregnant woman who died after being given the wrong dosage of drugs was one of almost 6,000 people harmed, and 29 killed, following prescription errors in the NHS in England last year. Figures from NHS England show that 98 hospital trusts...
A widow whose husband contracted an infection following a ‘world-first’ heart-lung transplant said she wants answers from the hospital that cared for him. Aaron Green, of Arundel, West Sussex, had the pioneering surgery at Royal Papworth...
A YORK dentist is working under supervision while her professional body investigates “serious and wide-ranging concerns” about her and her practice. The investigation followed a whistleblower making a series of claims about Dr Jenny...
A scandal-hit NHS trust where staff felt pressure to admit patients on to wards when it was unsafe, must improve, health and care regulator inspectors have said. Too few staff in some areas at Southern Health led to "low morale" and meant...
Urgent measures have been taken to address more concerns about vascular services in north Wales. Issues have been reported since Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board centralised the service at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire in 2019. After two...
A YORK dentist is working under supervision while her professional body investigates “serious and wide-ranging concerns” about her and her practice. The investigation followed a whistleblower making a series of claims about Dr Jenny...
Ambulance bosses have apologised to the family of a man who died after he had a heart attack but no ambulance responded to take him to hospital. Martin Clark, 68, started suffering with chest pains at his home in East Sussex on 18 November 2022...
An 89-year-old man with a broken hip and shoulder and a cut head had to be taken to hospital strapped to a plank in the back of a van because there were no ambulances available. His family said that Melvyn Ryan, whose wife, Maureen, died of Covid in...
A previously outstanding care home has been ordered to improve after inspectors found residents were left at risk from unsafe care. Lancashire care home, EachStep Blackburn, was inspected by health and care...
