‘Prosecutions and other criminal enforcement actions against unsafe care homes and NHS hospitals have risen a third in a year, amid warnings of a growing crisis.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2019
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‘British Airways has lost its legal attempt to block planned strikes by pilots, which could take place next month and disrupt the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers.’
The Guardian, 23rd July 2019
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‘A family’s fight to take their ill daughter to Italy for treatment will be heard at the High Court in September.’
BBC News, 22nd July 2019
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‘The deaths of eleven patients, including two young children, have been linked to glitches in the algorithms used by the NHS 111 and 999 services.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th July 2019
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‘Hospital notes show that a mother shouldn’t receive £200,000 in damages from the NHS for having child with Down’s Syndrome because she declined to have him tested before he was born, a court heard.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th July 2019
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‘A registered blind man is taking a hospital trust to court because its eye department keeps sending him letters he cannot read.’
BBC News, 8th July 2019
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‘The Moors murderer Ian Brady came in contact with vulnerable borstal boys for more than five years at Wormwood Scrubs prison, Home Office files in the National Archives show.’
The Guardian, 26th June 2019
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‘The number of cases uncovered by a maternity review at hospitals in Shropshire has more than doubled.’
BBC News, 24th June 2019
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‘NHS workers including nurses and cleaners have suffered “serious” sexual harassment in the workplace, including groping and rape, a new report has found.’
The Independent, 20th June 2019
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‘Potentially suicidal autistic children with mental health problems in Staffordshire have been left at risk of self-harm after receiving inadequate and unsafe care, according to a damning leaked internal NHS report.’
The Guardian, 16th June 2019
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‘A coroner has criticised a troubled mental health trust for failing a teenager who took his own life.’
BBC News, 17th June 2019
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‘The infection of up to 30,000 people with contaminated blood has been called the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history. Thousands have died.’
BBC News, 14th June 2019
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‘An independent inquiry into a failed NHS trust is expected to be announced later – amid concerns that 150 deaths were not properly investigated.’
BBC News, 6th June 2019
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‘Vulnerable patients at one of England’s largest charity-run mental health hospitals were kept in unsafe seclusion rooms for excessive amounts of time and without beds, blankets or pillows, a damning report has found. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated adolescent mental health services at St Andrew’s Healthcare hospital in Northampton ”inadequate”.’
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The Independent, 6th June 2019
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‘A man who was infected by contaminated blood has told a public inquiry of a life of fear, paranoia and anger.’
BBC News, 21st May 2019
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‘Patients with mental health problems, autism and learning disabilities are being let down by a “broken” care system, a report warns.’
BBC News, 21st May 2019
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‘Clinical negligence claims could be handled by a tribunal under a new test for liability of whether the patient has suffered ‘reasonably avoidable injury’, Sir Rupert Jackson has proposed.’
Litigation Futures, 17th May 2019
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‘The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against a claims management company whose advertising implied that birth injuries were only caused by medical negligence.’
Litigation Futures, 1st May 2019
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‘Families whose loved ones were killed in Gosport War Memorial Hospital have expressed their fury at the prospect of enduring a further wait that could last years to learn whether criminal charges are to be brought.’
The Independent, 30th April 2019
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