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More than 1,300 patients a year are having NHS funding for their palliative care withdrawn after living longer than expected, according to analysis by the BBC. Terminally ill, or rapidly declining, patients are given fast-track support, allowing...
A nurse who recorded she had given medication to care home residents when she had actually delegated the task to unqualified staff, has been struck off. Adelaide Maloane was working a night shift at Somerleigh Court in Dorchester, Dorset, in August...
Mid and South Essex NHS Trust paid £103m in compensation in the past 10 years following failings in its maternity department, according to a Freedom of Information request. The Trust also had the highest number of successful clinical...
A series of mistakes contributed to the death of a baby two days after being born, an inquest has found . Quinn Parker was delivered by emergency Caesarean section at City Hospital, Nottingham, in July 2021 but he had suffered oxygen starvation in...
Many patients are being prescribed unnecessary and even harmful treatments, a report warns. The review, in England, suggests one-tenth of items dispensed by primary care are inappropriate or could be changed. The government is appointing a...
Life-saving oxygen is at risk of not getting to patients in hospital because of problems with how it is piped around wards, a safety watchdog is warning. A Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) review said a number of hospitals in England...
A nursery nurse catapulted from a Hull Fair ride has agreed to a "five-figure" payout for the physical and psychological damage the accident caused. Jade Harrison, 24, fell from the Airmaxx 360 ride at Hull Fair on 7 October 2019,...
A painful infection that mainly affects women is too often dismissed as "women's problems." One in every two women suffers a urinary tract infection (UTI), the second most common infection globally. Among sufferers is Hannah Hanratty,...
One in three babies stillborn at two hospitals in South Wales may have survived had it not been for serious clinical mistakes, a review has established. The Independent Maternity Oversight Panel found major failings in 21 of 63 cases at two...
A NURSE who lied for five years about her actions in the final days of a well-known York musician was suspended from the nursing register. Susan Nyakwangwa deliberately deceived an inquest, police and care home staff, a nursing professional tribunal...
