Autistic children and those with a learning disability should never be subjected to long-term segregation in hospital – and its use should be “severely curtailed” for adults, a review has
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Hospitals in England will be allowed to cut back on some pre-planned care to cover the costs of strikes in the NHS, it has emerged. The unprecedented industrial action which
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Belfast neurologist Dr Michael Watt has been struck off the medical register following a tribunal. Dr Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland’s largest recall of patients. A medical
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A care provider has been charged with exposing a patient to a significant risk of avoidable harm after a vulnerable man was hit by a train after absconding from a
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The professional performance of a neurologist at the centre of Northern Ireland’s largest recall of patients has been found to be unacceptable following a medical tribunal. The panel is now
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A national system to ensure doctors and nurses act on parents’ concerns when they feel their child’s health is deteriorating is to be introduced by NHS England in a move
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Hospitals must do more to provide effective care for people with learning disabilities, the patient safety body has said. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) said the current system
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Boris Johnson has blamed “bed blocking” in the NHS for locking down the country as Covid took hold, the public inquiry has heard. In a section of his witness statement
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Matt Hancock wanted to decide “who should live and who should die” if hospitals became overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the former NHS England boss has claimed. Lord Simon Stevens (pictured),
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Families whose babies have died or been harmed at the hands of the NHS have come together to call for a full statutory inquiry into England’s maternity services. The Maternity
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