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The government has told the families of the Nottingham attack victims it will slow down mental health care reforms in the wake of a highly critical report on the treatment that Valdo Calocane received in the years before the killings. Dr Sanjoy...
More than 30 patients died after risks were not acted on in the decade following a controversial service redesign at a crisis-hit NHS mental health trust, according to an analysis by campaigners. The report by the Campaign...
A psychiatric patient took her own life fewer than 24 hours after being discharged from hospital without a care plan, an inquest has heard. Sarah Adams, 64, a schizophrenic, was found dead at her home in Reading on 19 May 2022. Berkshire...
Major flaws in the UK’s planning meant the Covid-19 pandemic caused more deaths and economic costs in the UK than it should have, the first report of the Covid Inquiry says. The 217-page report called for radical reform of the systems, saying...
The relatives of two women who died with herpes after giving birth are bringing clinical negligence claims against an NHS trust at the High Court. Kimberley Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulcahy, 32, died six weeks apart in 2018 after having Caesarean...
An interim report by the public care doctor, Penny Dash, has found the CQC is plagued by low levels of physical inspections, a lack of consistency in assessments and problems with a faltering IT system. In her report, Ms Dash said that she found...
A mother of five died of endometrial cancer hours after being admitted to A&E following preventable delays in her diagnosis. An inquest was told that a private clinic identified the cancer by ultrasound, but the report was never sent to her GP. ...
A hospital worker and an NHS trust have denied causing the death of a mental health patient who allegedly gained access to items used in 18 earlier attempts to take her own life. Benjamin Aninakwa, 52, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to...
A woman was denied the chance to have children with her husband after a contraceptive coil was accidentally left in place for 29 years. Jayne Huddleston, from Crewe, had eight rounds of fertility treatment she did not need because the correct checks...
The family of a man who took his own life after suffering mental health problems is to receive compensation from a trust that gave him substandard care. Adam Ludlow, 37, from Tilehurst, Berkshire, a married father of two, died in September 2017. ...
