Hospital admits failings over death
A health trust in charge of a hospital in which a woman died because she given the wrong drug almost six years ago has admitted breaking health and safety laws. Mayra Cabrera, 30, died soon after she gave birth at Great Western Hospital in Swindon …
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Baby to have life support removed
The father of tragic “right to life” baby RB has withdrawn his opposition to a High Court plea by doctors and the little boy’s mother for permission to switch off his life support. The decision came on the seventh day of an emotionally-charged …
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Outrage over hospital blunder
Scottish health chiefs have apologised “unreservedly” for a series of errors that led to the “preventable” death of a woman following surgery for breast cancer. Marlene Wightman, 49, a mother-of two, of Dalkeith, bled to death in the early hours …
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Parents to sue over baby’s death
A mother whose baby died after medical staff misread vital signs is to take legal action against the Royal Oldham Hospital. Tracy Last and her husband John, from Chadderton, near Oldham, had been desperate to have children, undergoing three years …
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Criticism after meningitis death
A 10-year-old boy who died from meningitis was refused antibiotics until it was too late, a Newcastle inquest has heard.








