One in three babies stillborn at two hospitals in South Wales may have survived had it not been for serious clinical mistakes, a review has found. The Independent Maternity Oversight
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A 21-month-old girl was murdered by a babysitter after the Probation Service failed to pass on information suggesting he posed a potential risk to children, a serious case review has
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An independent inquiry will be launched into the “systematic failures” that allowed Sarah Everard’s killer to be employed as a police officer, the Home Secretary has announced. Speaking at the
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Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said she will make the case for a full public inquiry into institutions for unmarried mothers in Northern Ireland, stating that women were treated
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The “great scandal” of mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland must be investigated by a public inquiry, an independent panel has recommended. The Stormont-commissioned experts
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A mother was told by a doctor that her son, who was being treated for cancer, would be safer at home than in a hospital where issues were linked to
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A young boy with cancer was kept in cell-like isolation in a “filthy” Glasgow hospital after his mother started asking questions about cleanliness and infections in the water, an inquiry
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The co-founder of a bereaved families group has said he hopes the Prime Minister will “at long last…take us seriously” when he meets members at Downing Street this week. Matt
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A patient told an inquiry her cancer treatment was stopped early as she contracted an infection from water used in an operating theatre, leaving her “worried and scared”. Stevie-Jo Kirkpatrick,
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A mother whose son was being treated for cancer on a children’s ward in Scotland has likened the hospital environment to “a third world country”. Suzanne Brown told the Scottish
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