NHS maternity and ambulance services are getting worse, with a rise in the number ranked inadequate for safety, a damning regulator report has found. Some 65% of maternity services are
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The social housing sector saw a more than four-fold increase in the most serious findings of failures or delays by landlords in the past year in what the ombudsman branded
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An inspection has revealed prisoners are living in “cramped conditions” within two areas of Scotland’s oldest prison. Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, HM chief inspector of Scotland’s prisons, says in her latest report
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The head of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUHT) has said he is “pleased” by the progress made in maternity care but said its improved rating is “not good enough”,
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is investigating potential criminal offences in the cases of three serious maternity incidents at an under-review NHS trust. The CQC said it is assessing whether
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Valium prescriptions given to hundreds of people across England with drug and alcohol dependencies are to be reviewed after an investigation. A report by the Local Government and Social Care
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The nursing regulator for the UK has confirmed it is looking into claims against Lucy Letby’s former boss, Alison Kelly. Ms Kelly (pictured), who was director of nursing at the
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The Government has ordered an independent inquiry into the Lucy Letby case, after the nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others. The Government
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Councils are too often leaving anti-social behaviour unchecked, a watchdog has found as it criticised a failure to tackle incidents including a neighbour’s 13-hour house party and another where a
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A maternity unit has been given the lowest possible rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after the regulator described it as a “chaotic environment which was not fit for
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