A man discovered a medical specimen bag had been left inside his stomach after his hernia surgery, the BBC has found. The surgeon who carried out the procedure, at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in 2016, also left behind part of Tom Hadrys’s bowel that had been cut out during the operation. According […]
A nine-year-old boy died from sepsis after doctors and nurses missed a “significant” GP note, an inquest heard. Dylan Cope, from Newport was taken to the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, on 6 December 2022 after his GP wrote “query appendicitis”, but this note was not read. The senior doctor on shift that night said […]
Parliament will aim to pass an important bill ahead of the general election to ensure victims of the infected blood scandal are compensated as soon as possible, the government says. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said there was a “clear desire” to get it done. MPs will consider House of Lords amendments to the Victims and […]
Summary Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is appearing at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in London He is the head of the UK’s civil service, taking the job during the pandemic Whatsapp messages Case sent in September 2020 which were highly critical of then-PM Boris Johnson have already been shown to the inquiry He told other officials […]
Image source, Sequoia EmmanuelleImage caption, Mandeep Dhillon took just over a year to record and release her first song Pria Rai & Manish Pandey BBC Asian Network If you do a search for Mandeep Dhillon’s work, you’ll find plenty of acting credits. Ricky Gervais’s After Life, Peacock, Avoidance and the recently concluded CSI: Vegas. But […]
Image caption, Route one has been approved by Jersey’s States Assembly Ammar Ebrahim BBC Jersey political reporter Jersey politicians have voted to approve plans to allow assisted dying for those with a terminal illness “causing unbearable suffering”. The States Assembly has been debating two routes through which people who have lived in Jersey for longer […]
Media caption, “Your legs and arms are dead”: Craig Mackinlay speaks about his sepsis limb loss By Helen Catt, Isabella Allen & Kate Whannel BBC News Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay is due to return to Parliament for the first time after suffering a life-threatening episode of sepsis which led to the amputation of his hands […]
Image source, Getty Images By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Infected blood victims could each receive payments of more than £2 million under a compensation scheme announced by the government. Ministers set out the figures as they unveiled the proposed scheme following publication of the public inquiry’s report into the scandal on Monday. That said authorities […]
The UK Covid Inquiry has opened its investigation into the impact of the pandemic on children and young people., external Areas it will focus on include how children’s education, development, mental health and use of social media were affected. The inquiry said it would listen to children with special educational needs, disabilities and from a […]
Perry Evans was one of the first victims to give evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry. He died just five weeks ago and never saw the damning report into the scandal that was published on Monday. His wife, Heather Evans, sat next to a picture of Perry as she listened to Sir Brian Langstaff read […]
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