A vulnerable patient who absconded from a mental health hospital by climbing over a fence before he was killed by a train should have been under constant observation, an inquest
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Families affected by alleged maternity failures at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) have called for an independent review of the services led by Donna Ockenden. A group of 100 mothers have
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A patient who was struck by a train after absconding from a mental health hospital had been assessed as a low suicide risk, a doctor has told an inquest. Matthew
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The parents of a nine-year-old girl said they had trusted a doctor who 26 years later is accused of covering up her death, a tribunal has heard. Dr Heather Steen
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Some 201 babies and nine mothers could have – or would have – survived if an NHS trust had provided better care, an independent inquiry into the UK’s biggest maternity
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A 2013 investigation commissioned by local NHS managers into maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust concluded services were safe, meaning failings were allowed to continue. The study,
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The daughter of an NHS worker who died from Covid-19 has said she is “distraught” after an inquest concluded procedures were in place to keep him safe. Mark Woolcock, 59,
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Appropriate procedures were in place to ensure an NHS employee who died from Covid-19 was kept safe before his death, a coroner has concluded. Mark Woolcock, 59, of Stratford, died
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A black schoolgirl was strip searched by police while on her period after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The “traumatic” search by Metropolitan Police officers took place at the
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A new report into child sexual abuse has found boarding schools are the “ideal environment for grooming”, with pupils being more dependent on adults around them than in non-residential settings.
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