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A patient who took his own life on a mental health ward died after "neglect" from a hospital trust, a coroner has said. Mick Woods, 66, of Walton-on-the-Naze, died on Christmas Day in 2020 at the King's Wood Centre, Colchester. Essex...
More than 4,000 surviving victims of the NHS scandal of giving patients blood contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C should receive provisional compensation of £100,000 each, a judge has said . Infected blood public inquiry chairman, Sir Brian...
Multiple failings within a prison could have contributed to a man killing himself hours after arriving there, an inquest found. Prisoner Justin Still, 39, was found dead in his cell at HMP Bullingdon near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 6 April 2019. An...
A care home provider has been fined £1.5m after a resident choked to death at a West Sussex home. Health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) brought the prosecution against Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd, which runs Mill...
A hospital patient would have not suffered a "massive" stroke if she had been given the correct drug to reduce blood clots, a High Court judge has ruled. The High Court found that Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, breached its duty of...
A hospital and one of its managers are facing a criminal investigation into the death of a vulnerable man who absconded by climbing a fence. An inquest concluded failings amounting to neglect contributed to the death of Matthew Caseby in 2020,...
Five healthcare staff have been charged with criminal offences as part of a major investigation into the ill-treatment of hospital patients. Concerns had been raised about the welfare of some patients on the stroke unit at Blackpool Victoria...
The death of a baby boy only hours after his mother was turned away from a maternity unit was due to natural causes "contributed to by neglect" and "gross failure", a coroner has ruled. The baby, Archie Batten, died on 1...
A woman whose partner died after having an AstraZeneca jab has become the first person to receive compensation following a Covid vaccine death. Vikki Spit's former rock singer fiancé Zion, 48, of Alston, Cumbria, fell ill eight days after...
More than 200 hospital patients underwent mesh bowel operations they might not have needed, a review has found. Most of the surgery intended to fix prolapsed bowels was carried out by surgeon Tony Dixon, who was dismissed in 2019. One patient,...
