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A GP who ran an online gender identity clinic was suspended from the UK medical register for two months after a tribunal found her guilty of serious misconduct in the care of three young patients transitioning from female to male. The medical practitioners...
A baby was left "severely disabled" after a delay during his delivery by Caesarean section, a High Court judge has been told. Betsi Cadwaladr health board will pay £4m in compensation after a negligence claim was...
Topshop and its former owner Arcadia have been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for health and safety failings after a schoolboy died in an accident at one of their stores. Although Arcadia was fined just £650,000, the company could...
An estimated 1,820 people died in the UK after being given contaminated blood transfusions between 1970 and 1991, a report has found. The authors calculated that at least 26,800 people were probably infected with hepatitis C after being given the...
The NHS could be facing its largest-ever maternity scandal as the review into services at Nottingham University Hospitals Foundation Trust (NUH) is now expected to involve more than 1,500 cases, The investigation started in 2020, after The...
A law student who died after four remote GP appointments was likely to have lived if he had been seen face-to-face, a coroner has ruled. David Nash died in November 2020 after developing mastoiditis in his ear, which caused an abscess on his brain. ...
The families of three patients who died after having the same specialised endoscopy procedure have accepted damages from an NHS trust. The patients all died after having an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) carried out at Nottingham...
Relatives of a woman who collapsed and died some time after doctors failed to diagnose her heart condition have been suggested to take their secondary victim psychiatric injury claim to the Supreme Court. The suggestion came from Master of The Rolls, Sir...
A hospital trust has been fined more than £1.3m after admitting failures in care that contributed to the deaths of two patients. Mohammed Ismael Zaman, 31, died of severe blood loss while undergoing dialysis at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in...
A coroner has called for action to resolve a national shortage of haematologists after a teenage girl’s death from leukaemia. Katie Wilkins, 14, died after failures in her treatment at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool. She had...
