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A senior doctor refused to see a woman who died of an asthma attack after 39 hours waiting in a chair in A&E, an inquest heard. Marina Young, 46, died at the Royal Preston Hospital on 22 June 2022 after a "gross failure to provide...
Multiple failings have been identified in the case of a woman who was killed and dismembered in her own home. Luke Deeley, 26, who had earlier been diagnosed with psychosis and was living rough, walked into June Fox-Roberts' home...
A midwife was struck off for failing to give a newborn baby a vital Vitamin K injection and then telling "deplorable" lies about it when the baby became ill. The baby boy went on to develop a rare bleeding disorder that the jab, offered to...
The mother of a girl who died after having a severe reaction to a Costa hot chocolate has accused the food industry of treating allergen safety training like a "tick-box exercise", after a coroner concluded she died because of a...
Urgent government action is needed to stop preventable asthma deaths, a leading charity has said. More than 12,000 people in the UK have died from asthma attacks since 2014, according to Asthma and Lung UK. It said the figures meant...
A father-to-be who died on the day of his daughter's birth may have lived if a heart defect had not been missed, a coroner has found. Thomas Gibson, 40, died from a sudden cardiac arrest on 7 June 2023 after a hospital doctor...
Tougher regulation for alternative therapies has been called for by the family of a diabetic woman who died when she went to a slapping workshop and stopped taking her insulin. Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, died in Wiltshire in October 2016 at a retreat...
The health secretary and NHS officials must urgently address the “non-existent” care available to ME sufferers and the lack of funding for research into the condition or risk more deaths like that of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, a coroner...
Blood transfusion errors where cancer patients were given the wrong type of blood on 14 occasions were just the "tip of an iceberg", a review has found. More than 150 harmful incidents were identified within the blood transfusion group at...
A newborn baby died after being starved of oxygen during birth while midwives joked about how many Haribo sweets they had eaten and how much money they earned, an inquest heard. Amelia Bradley, 26, had attended King’s Mill Hospital,...
