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A solicitor representing 350 families who lost loved ones to Covid has said it is likely that legal action will be taken against the Welsh government. The announcement follows a High Court ruling that discharging patients to care homes in England...
A woman who visited doctors for five years with constant pain was eventually told it was pancreatic cancer and she had only six months to live. After two rounds of chemotherapy, Elaine Hill-Clement, 61, from Cardiff decided to stop treatment and...
A teenager with a severe nut allergy died partly because of human error, a coroner has ruled. Ms Shante Turay-Thomas, 18, from London had a severe reaction to eating a hazelnut. The inquest into her death heard a series of failures meant that an...
A teenager with a severe nut allergy died partly because of human error, a coroner has ruled. Ms Shante Turay-Thomas, 18, from London had a severe reaction to eating a hazelnut. The inquest into her death heard a series of failures meant that an...
The way that police restrained a man who was ill after taking amphetamines contributed "more than minimally" to his death, an inquest jury found. Leon Briggs, 39, a father of two, died in November 2013 after being detained at Luton police station...
A hospital trust has been fined £100,000 after a 91-year-old patient suffered burns on a radiator pipe. The patients, Iris Longmate, was found face down in a room at Lincoln County Hospital and was left pressed up against the hot pipe by staff...
Sick people’s lives are being placed at greater risk because patients are facing unacceptably long waits for an ambulance after making a 999 call , according to the professional body for ambulance services, the College of Paramedics. The...
Having coronavirus around the time of having a baby may increase the chance of stillbirths or premature births, although the overall risks remain low, according to a large UK study. Scientists say while most pregnancies are not affected, their...
A man, who suffered internal bleeding from surgery following an incorrect diagnosis, says he still has nightmares about how he was treated. The public services ombudsman for Wales has said that the surgery was "completely avoidable" and...
A coroner has described the information and treatment available for a 24-year-old problem gambler who took his own life in Vietnam as “woefully inadequate.” Yorkshire South West acting coroner, David Urpeth, delivered a narrative verdict...
