The Mental Welfare Commission has updated its good practice guide on the use of seclusion in hospitals and in the community for people with mental illness or learning disability. The
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Tory former health secretary Jeremy Hunt said doctors, nurses and midwives are “terrified” of speaking out about baby deaths because of a “blame culture” within the NHS. Speaking on Baby
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A mother whose son was born with Down’s syndrome after a missed screening has won the right to damages from the NHS. Edyta Mordel, 33, sued the Royal Berkshire NHS
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A Tory MP and nurse has warned of the “high vacancy rate” as she called on the Government to establish legally enforceable nursing staffing levels in the NHS in England.
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The Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government, Hannah Blythyn AM, has this week officially launched a new network to support injured veterans. The Veterans Trauma Network Wales (VTN Wales)
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A Saudi Arabian couple have gone on trial accused of cruelty towards a child who was allegedly injected with “dangerous” amounts of insulin. Amal Asiri, 29, and her husband Mohammed
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Department of Health officials ignored people falling ill with hepatitis in the early 1970s, allowing the contaminated blood scandal to continue for years, new documents reveal. The minutes of a
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Healthcare workers have a “very strong professional responsibility” to get the winter flu jab, officials have warned, after less than half of staff in some parts of the country were
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A couple who want to move their severely disabled five-year-old daughter to an Italian hospital have won a High Court life-support treatment fight. Specialists caring for Tafida Raqeeb at the
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A couple who want to move their severely disabled five-year-old daughter to an Italian hospital are waiting for a judge’s ruling after becoming embroiled in a life-support dispute with doctors
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