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  A police force has said a review into the death of a teenager during spinal surgery is "near completion." Catherine O'Connor, 17, died from massive blood loss during an operation at Salford Royal Hospital in 2007. The operation was...

  Health secretary, Wes Streeting, has been urged to speed up reforms to the adult care system following patient deaths after two coroners warned him of the impact insufficient care beds and service provision are having on the NHS. Coroners sent two...

  An inquest into the death of a six-year-old girl has concluded an NHS hospital trust made a number of failures in her care before she died. However, a coroner found there was no evidence that indicated that the trust had directly caused or...

  An NHS hospital trust has apologised after a coroner found a series of failures contributed to the death of a newborn baby.  Alfie Hinton died 23 minutes after being born on 10 May 2019 at Airedale General Hospital, Keighley, due to a brain...

The Legal Aid Agency recently became aware of a cyber-attack to its online digital services.  The incident does not involve our IT or case management systems but it is possible that a small number of our Clinical Negligence and Catastrophic Injury...

  A 12-year-old girl died after drinking a milkshake made in an unwashed blender at a cafe in south-east London. Mia St Hilaire had a tree nut allergy and had a severe reaction after her order was believed to contain traces of hazelnuts and almonds...

  Mothers have made hundreds of complaints about maternity services at Suffolk Hospitals. Data retrieved by the BBC has revealed that 481 complaints have been made to West Suffolk Hospital and Ipswich Hospital since 2019. The results of the Freedom...

  The chair of England's first public inquiry into mental health deaths has vowed to "seek out the truth" in spite of difficulties getting documents from the NHS. The first key evidence sessions in the Lampard Inquiry, which is...

  A police investigation into allegations of preventable deaths and injuries at an NHS trust has doubled the number of cases it is examining, BBC News reported. The claims come from care and treatment provided by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust...

  The widow of a man who took his own life after becoming addicted to gambling says more people will die because the regulator is refusing to investigate suicides linked to the addiction. Annie Ashton is planning legal action against the Gambling...