A struggling ambulance trust could face a “Titanic moment” and collapse entirely this summer, its nursing director has said, as committee papers warn of an England-wide “catastrophic situation”. Mark Docherty,
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Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was spent for “nothing in return” because of “loopholes” in the contract for a privately run youth jail shut down over serious safety concerns,
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The father of a three-year-old boy who was murdered by his mother and her partner has said he will remember his son as a child who was “always smiling and
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A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years. Laura Heath
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A coroner has urged health chiefs to consider imposing minimum standards for perimeter fences at acute mental health units after neglect was found to have contributed to the death of
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There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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A nurse warned a vulnerable severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy “could die at the weekend” two days before the youngster’s death, alone and “gasping for air”, after being fatally neglected by
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Failings amounting to neglect contributed to the death of a vulnerable man who was hit by a train after absconding from a mental health hospital, a jury has ruled. Personal
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A man has been found guilty of murdering his partner’s three-year-old son, after inflicting more than 20 rib fractures, during weeks of “horrendous” beatings, including some using force similar to
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Police officers answering a 999 call from a mental health hospital to help find a vulnerable patient who had absconded and later died were left “frustrated” when a receptionist there
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