Mental health trusts are being asked to review deaths for “red flags” to improve patient treatment and prevent failings being repeated in light of the death of a teenager with
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The families of two young men who died while in the care of the authorities have called for legal aid to be made more available for those fighting well-funded authorities
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A doctor has been suspended from working for a year after an epileptic teenager drowned in a bath while left alone in an NHS care home. Dr Valerie Murphy was
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An NHS trust has said it is “truly sorry” about the death of an epileptic teenager who drowned in a bath while in its care, after it admitted failings that
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A doctor has told medical watchdogs she missed warning signs weeks before an epileptic teenager drowned in a bath after suffering a seizure at an NHS care unit. Valerie Murphy,
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to prosecute an NHS trust after an 18-year-old patient drowned at one of its specialist facilities. Connor Sparrowhawk (pictured) suffered an epileptic seizure
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NHS trusts will be required to collect and publish the number of preventable deaths recorded on a hospital by hospital basis from next year, Jeremy Hunt has announced. A report
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There are “system-wide” problems in the way NHS investigates patient deaths which leave family members in the dark about failures in care, a damning new review has found. The review
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The former chief executive of a troubled mental health trust has been given a £190,000 payoff after she left her latest role. Katrina Percy’s role leading Southern Health had become
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A much-criticised health trust has admitted creating a new job for its former chief executive who resigned after saying her position had become untenable. Katrina Percy announced her decision to
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