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A care home has closed its nursing services after an inspection by health and care regulators rated it ‘Inadequate.’ The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said Priory Court Nursing Home, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, had not been able to recruit...
Remote GP appointments may have been a contributing factor in the deaths of five people who were not given face-to-face GP appointments, a coroner has concluded. Senior coroner for Greater Manchester South, Alison Mutch, said important information...
Women operated on by a male surgeon are far more likely to die, experience complications and be readmitted to hospital than when a woman performs the procedure, according to new research. Women are 15% more liable to suffer a bad outcome, and 32%...
Footballer Emiliano Sala died instantly from "head and trunk injuries" when the plane he was in crashed after breaking up mid-air, an inquest jury has found. The jury also concluded he was likely to have been "deeply unconscious"...
Maternity services at York and Scarborough NHS Trust are “so unsafe as to be putting women and babies’ lives in danger every day”, a whistleblower has claimed. Staff shortages have meant that community midwives were working 24-hour...
Transplant surgeon who branded patients’ livers struck off medical register A surgeon who burned his initials on to the livers of two patients during transplant surgery has been struck off the medical register. Simon Bramhall, 57, admitted using an...
An “Evil fraudster” who cheated an elderly woman she was employed to care for out of almost £19,000, has been jailed. Corina Rose Lyons’ crimes forced the seriously ill, wheelchair-bound woman to sell her house, move to...
Young people cared for by an NHS mental health service came to harm because of its failings, health and care regulator inspectors said. Care provided by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) was rated "inadequate" by the...
The mother of a man who took his own life has said bereaved families are left "in limbo" by a mental health trust's delays in providing serious incident reports. Local health officials have raised concerns about extended delays in...
A coroner has criticised a care home over its "significant management failure" after a mentally disabled patient choked to death on a marshmallow. Patrick Casey, 41, from Birmingham, died on April 5 2019 at Barnet Hospital after being...
