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A leading midwife who has led reviews into care failings in the NHS has criticised the health service for "failing" to give her daughter safe care. Donna Ockenden, from Sussex, says her daughter Phoebe, who has epilepsy and was having...
Child killer Lucy Letby did not murder any babies, a panel of international medical experts reviewing evidence in her case has claimed. Panel chairman, Dr Shoo Lee, a Canadian neonatal care expert, told a press conference "in all cases death...
A coroner has found neglect and failure to provide adequate medical care contributed to the preventable death of six-day old baby, Hayden Nguyen, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London in 2016. The coroner’s verdict came after his...
A series of failings in the care of Valdo Calocane before he killed three people in Nottingham in 2023, have been identified by an independent report. The report reveals that “the system got it wrong” with Calocane, who stabbed to...
An NHS trust has been fined £1.6m after admitting it failed to provide safe care and treatment to three babies who died within months of one another. It is the first time a trust has been prosecuted more than once for maternity failures....
Detectives investigating hundreds of deaths at a hospital have identified 24 suspects. An independent panel previously found 456 patients died after being given opiates inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1987 and...
A senior coroner has accused Chelsea and Westminster Hospital of a cover-up after the death of a baby when midwives failed to act on clear signs that his mother was in distress. Elton Deutekom was pronounced dead 37 minutes after his birth in...
Many of the maternity failings at scandal-hit hospitals are becoming more widespread, England’s NHS regulator says. Investigations into units in Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent found poor care may have contributed...
A mother whose nine-year-old daughter became the first UK person to have air pollution recognised as a factor in her death said she was "never going to win" despite settling a legal action with the government. The girl, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah,...
A coroner has found neglect and failure to provide adequate medical care contributed to the preventable death of six-day old baby, Hayden Nguyen, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London in 2016. The coroner’s verdict came after his parents...
