Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said he wishes they could have done more for staff working during the pandemic. Sir Michael McBride (pictured) said the pandemic “took a heavy
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An inquiry chair has called for a “reset” on an “inadequate” government response to her recommendations on preventing a repeat of the Brook House immigration centre scandal. Kate Eves (pictured),
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Decisions to restrict hospital visits during the pandemic in Northern Ireland were taken as “the least worst option”, the former chief nursing officer (CNO) for the region has said. Professor
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A microbiologist working at a hospital at the centre of infection concerns was told she was “head of nothing” when she tried to blow the whistle on patient safety issues,
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An inquiry into mental health deaths in Essex has been told that the extent of the problem was “downplayed by those within the heart of government”. The Lampard Inquiry will
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The Covid-19 Inquiry has so far cost the taxpayer more than £161 million when spending by the Government and the probe are both taken into account, figures suggest. Some 280
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A hospital water system was filled “too early”, increasing the opportunity for contamination, a microbiologist has told the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry. The inquiry heard that the water system at the
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A judge has said “it is difficult to imagine a greater loss” ahead of a Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) into the death of a baby girl who died in hospital
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A 93-year-old dementia sufferer died after eating laundry capsules that looked like sweets, according to a report. Elizabeth Van Der-Drift (pictured) died by a combination of aspiration pneumonia, ingesting the
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Staff at a north London hospital missed and made incomplete medical checks on a four-year-old boy in the days before he died from sepsis, an inquest has heard. Daniel Klosi
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