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‘Should never have been prescribed’: private UK cannabis clinics face call for tighter regulation

Family pushing for greater controls after inquest finds Oliver Robinson’s prescription was ‘obstacle’ to proper care

The Guardian - UK

Mental health hospital paid millions by NHS facing police probe after patient death

Police are investigating the death of an elderly man, while eight care workers have been arrested on suspicion of wilful neglect and ill treatment of another patient at the 400-bed St Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton

The Independent UK

Unregistered Harley Street plastic surgeon pretended to be patient during inspection

Dr Sayed Mia carried out gynaecomastia procedures without the necessary registration, a tribunal heard

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‘I was left in agony after cancer surgery – but hospital staff wouldn’t help’

Exclusive: Patient said she suffered nightmares following stay at under-fire NHS trust criticised by health watchdog over staff shortages

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Surgical patients left in agony amid staffing crisis at one of the UK’s biggest NHS trusts

Exclusive: Surgical staff at a major hospital have reported feeling burnt out and overwhelmed, while others have claimed that staffing levels are unsafe

The Independent UK

Failings in mental health care demand quicker and more decisive action

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Mental health services must not be allowed to shut themselves off from patients’ families. It is too late to secure justice for young people like Ruth Szymankiewicz, but it can never be too late to learn lessons from hospital failures

The Independent UK

Great Ormond Street Hospital criticised by NHS watchdog for using physician associates to fill surgical rota

The Care Quality Commission found the trust also had a shortage of nurses trained to carry out tracheostomies

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Microdosing: how ‘off-label’ use of weight loss jabs is spreading from US to UK

Private clinics offer reduced doses of GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro to clients outside usual market, but some people are wary

The Guardian - UK

My father died in a care home and all I got was denials and excuses

Letters: Readers on how care homes and regulatory bodies have failed their families, in response to an article on The Firs in Nottinghamshire, which was closed by the Care Quality Commission

The Guardian - UK

NHS trust fined £1.6m for ‘catalogue of failures’ that led to deaths of babies

It is the second time that Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust has been prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission for maternity failures.

The Independent UK

Concerns flagged to CQC go months with no response because of backlogs, MPs told

The organisation’s new chief executive said staff have told him they believe a new IT system that was rolled out last spring is not fit for purpose.

Evening Standard

Cosmetic clinic that secretly filmed patients is ‘not safe’, watchdog finds

A damning report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found that Doncaster-based Elements Medical was inadequate in every area it inspected.

The Independent UK

Children’s’ futures at risk over worsening NHS delays, reveals national watchdog

Watchdog the Care Quality Commission warns NHS delays for young people ‘risks failing their future’

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Delays to good healthcare for children risks failing their future, says watchdog

The Care Quality Commission has published its annual report on the overall state of health and social care in England.

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Parents pressured to go private as children struggle to see NHS dentist – report

Experts called for ‘fundamental changes to NHS dentistry’.

The Independent UK

Hospital staff broke man’s arm while restraining him and then left him ‘untreated for 24 hours’

Exclusive: Staff at former Danshell Group hospital accused of breaking patient’s arm while restraining him

Evening Standard

Nottingham attack victims might still be alive if not for NHS failings, Wes Streeting says

Health Secretary reacts to ‘distrressing’ Care Quality Commission review into care of Valdo Calocane before he stabbed three people to death

The Independent UK

Nottingham stabbing victim’s mother’s anger after NHS left Valdo Calocane ‘free to slaughter’

Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham last year

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UK politics: Labour puts Tories’ ‘freedom of speech’ law for universities on hold – as it happened

Controversial measure is paused with the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, indicating that it could be repealed

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Managers who silence whistleblowers ‘will never work in NHS again’, vows Streeting

Exclusive: Shadow health secretary discusses plans for waiting lists and patient safety if Labour wins election

The Guardian - UK

Brain damage to babies in birth has cost NHS in England £4.1bn in lawsuits

Exclusive: £3.6bn has been paid out in 1,307 cases, according to information obtained under freedom of information laws

The Guardian - UK

Father of man who died after neglect at Priory calls for investigation into second hospital

The group’s facility near Manchester, where three women died in 2022, ‘should be prosecuted’, says Richard Caseby

The Guardian - UK

Priory healthcare group fined £650,000 over death of patient

Matthew Caseby ‘inappropriately unattended’ before he absconded from mental health hospital in Birmingham

Evening Standard

Foreign worker visas crackdown 'under close review', says Number 10 with a week to go before new restrictions

New laws for foreign health and care workers come into force on March 11

The Guardian - UK

‘Pretty dodgy’: alarm over suspect care agencies granted Home Office licence to act as visa sponsors

Campaigners against labour exploitation urge government to conduct more stringent checks before awarding powers

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