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NewsCQC warns trust over maternity staffing
The trust with the highest perinatal mortality rates in the country has been told it must improve its midwifery staffing.
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NewsPatient Safety Awards 2025 shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the 2025 Patient Safety Awards has been announced, featuring 216 projects that demonstrate excellence in categories including data and analytics, primary care, children and young people, maternity and many more.
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NewsPolice launch corporate manslaughter investigation into another trust
A corporate manslaughter investigation has been launched into serious maternity failings at a major trust where hundreds of babies have died or been harmed.
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HSJ LocalHospital criticised for ‘poor’ and ‘defensive’ investigations
A hospital trust has been criticised for its “poor” and “defensive” investigations into three deaths, which a coroner has linked to care by a single surgeon.
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News‘Profound disappointment’ as ICBs are allowed to cut safety funding
A leading midwife and chair of government maternity inquiries has cited “significant concern about safety and wellbeing” following a substantial cut to nationally ring-fenced funding.
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HSJ LocalTrust orders review into breast cancer services
A North East trust has begun a full review of its breast cancer services after finding unexplained variation in its surgical practices.
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NewsThirlwall: Guilty or not there was ‘total failure of safeguarding’ at Letby trust
Lady Thirlwall has rejected calls from senior managers to pause the official inquiry into the deaths of infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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NewsHospital told it’s ‘undoubtedly causing harm’
A major emergency department described by a national team as “undoubtedly causing patient harm and distress to staff” told HSJ it believes it has started to crack some of its problems.
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NewsNHSE names critical care doctor as interim national director
An interim national director of patient safety has been appointed, after the permanent postholder was seconded to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsStreeting backs ‘compelling’ cancer restructure
Wes Streeting has backed a contested move by NHS England to restructure children’s cancer services that fall short of quality standards, despite local objections.
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NewsICBs ‘detached’ from patient safety risks
A new reporting system has left integrated care boards “detached” from patient safety incidents, a watchdog has found.
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NewsTrust fined £1.7m for maternity care failures
An acute trust has been fined £1.7m – one of the largest penalties to date – after multiple failings in connection with the deaths of three babies under its care.
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NewsReview uncovers ‘chaos’ at trust caring for man who killed three
A wide range of corporate failings contributed towards the climate in which a mental health patient killed three people in Nottingham in 2023, a review commissioned by NHS England has concluded.
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NewsHigh-risk hospitals delayed despite government assurances
At least two trusts whose hospitals rely on high-risk concrete will not open replacements until after 2030, despite theoretically being prioritised by government.
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NewsLate delivery of equipment linked to patient’s death
The late supply of defective equipment used by care staff to reduce harm from a pressure ulcer contributed to the death of a vulnerable patient, a coroner has concluded.
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NewsFailing trust executives are not given new jobs to avoid disputes, claims Powis
NHS England does not seek to move failing executives into new jobs to avoid employment disputes, its medical director has told a public inquiry.
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NewsManagers should ‘embrace’ regulation, says Letby trust CEO
NHS managers should “welcome and embrace” the introduction of professional regulation in the wake of the Lucy Letby scandal, according to the current CEO of the trust where her murders took place.
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds of mothers diverted while in labour
Nearly 1,000 women were diverted to other NHS trusts or units while in labour within a six-month period this year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS ‘ignores staff, patients and families’, says minister
Health minister Gillian Merron has declared many patients have a poor experience of NHS care as a result of a “culture that has ignored the voice of staff [and] of patients and families for too long”.
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NewsLetby trust CEO ‘was fit and proper’, claims chair
The former chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital said its then chief executive did not meet the threshold for failing a “fit and proper person” test, despite criticism of his treatment of paediatricians and their concerns about Lucy Letby.