Maternity care in England’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) has been deemed unsafe and ineffective following a damning official report that found mothers and babies died or were severely harmed due to “repeated failures” over decades.
A National Health Service hospital group has admitted in court the failure to provide safe maternity care to Sarah Richford and her baby son Harry, who died seven days after delivery, in the first prosecution of its kind.
A police investigation into hundreds of lives allegedly shortened by the wrongful administration of opioids at an NHS hospital has been expanded to include the review of 15,000 death certificates.
A police investigation has begun into hundreds of deaths at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in Hampshire, England.
A whistleblower nurse told police in 1999 that “euthanasia” was being practised by medical staff at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, but authorities claimed at the time there was no evidence of an offence.
An inquest has found that 456 patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital died after the unjustified administration of opioids under the watch of Dr Jane Barton.
