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A woman died when a national private healthcare provider failed to transfer her to NHS intensive care quickly enough after she became critically ill, the BBC has revealed. The death of Mrs Khan from east London was one of several deaths following...
A coroner has issued a warning to senior doctors after a two-year-old boy died 14 months after an x-ray failed to detect the plastic toy he had swallowed. Kazarie Dwaah-Lyder was given the scan in February 2022 after swallowing a "googly eye"...
The Tory government led by prime minister, Boris Johnson, blocked a request to fund another 10,000 hospital beds at the height of the Covid pandemic, the chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. She said that...
A disgraced former breast surgeon told an inquest into the death of one of his patients that the number of "cleavage-sparing mastectomies" he was alleged to have carried out had been "inflated." Ian Paterson was jailed for...
A leading NHS children’s hospital is reviewing the care 721 patients received after an investigation found that children treated by one of its surgeons came to “severe harm” during limb reconstruction operations. Great...
A nine-year-old boy who died from sepsis days after being sent home from hospital with a leaflet about flu was “erroneously discharged”, a senior coroner has concluded. Dylan Cope from Newport went to A&E at the Grange Hospital,...
A Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report has been issued by a coroner after a ten-week-old baby boy died from sepsis in Kings Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Tommy Gillman was admitted to King's Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS...
A young woman who suffered for years with severe ME died from malnutrition because of her illness, a coroner has concluded. Maeve Boothby O’Neill, 27, died in October 2021 at her home in Exeter after living with the debilitating disease, also...
Hospital staff missed two opportunities to treat a woman found dying under a coat in a crowded emergency department, a coroner has concluded. An inquest into the death of Inga Rublite, 39, found she died of natural causes but medical staff in...
Infected blood victims could each receive payments of more than £2m in a compensation scheme announced by the government. The payments follow the publication of a public inquiry report into the scandal, the biggest ever to hit the NHS, which...
