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A specialist surgeon has been suspended from a world-renowned NHS hospital after children under their care were left with lasting injuries. A review was commissioned at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, the East of England's designated major...
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of a woman believed to have undergone a non-surgical Brazilian butt lift (BBL). Mother-of-five Alice Webb, 33, died at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after falling...
Widely used antidepressants which contributed to the death of Thomas Kingston, the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, have featured in 40 coroners’ reports aimed at averting future deaths. Thomas Kingston, 45, took his own...
A cancer patient has spent more than 14 years receiving unnecessary chemotherapy, hospital managers have admitted. Lawyers representing the man claim they know of 12 more patients, all in Coventry, saying his case is the "tip of the...
A surgeon who was found to have caused harm to hundreds of people has been suspended for a further six months. A tribunal heard how Tony Dixon left patients in "agony" after using artificial mesh to treat prolapsed bowels at Southmead...
A medical practice has accepted that a 26-year-old man who died within two weeks of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine was not told the correct risk. Jack Hurn, from Redditch, developed blood clots on the brain in June 2021 after he got the jab at...
A newborn baby died due to the gross failure of three midwives to provide basic medical care, a coroner has ruled. Ida Lock was born at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) on 9 November 2019 but died a week later after suffering a serious brain...
The parents of a young woman who died during a legal battle with the NHS have won their appeal after a ruling their daughter could not make decisions about her care. Sudiksha Thirumalesh, 19, who had a rare mitochondrial disorder, had been involved...
An alternative healer who promoted a “slapping therapy” followed by millions of people worldwide has been jailed for the gross negligence manslaughter of a British woman who died at one of his workshops in Wiltshire. ...
A doctor whose seriously ill son died of sepsis after she rushed him to the east London hospital where she worked, says she feels "betrayed" by the way her family were treated. William Hewes, 22, died within 24 hours of being admitted to...
