NHS facing ‘absolutely shocking’ £27bn bill for maternity failings in England Exclusive: Legal actions rise after death or injury of hundreds of babies and women in recent years The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2025
Robbed at birth: Poorer families denied millions in compensation over maternity failings Exclusive: Critics condemn the system as ‘unfair’ because it gives the least financial support to families who need it the most The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2025
London NHS trusts payout £689m in compensation for child medical negligence The Royal Free London alone paid out £70m to settle claims Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2025
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 · May 26, 2024
Payments for clinical negligence in NHS rise to almost £2.7bn Mistakes in maternity care accounted for a large proportion of claims by value. The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023
The best paying jobs in Leeds right now - including one that earns more than Rishi Sunak There are quite a few different jobs which will see you earning over £100,000 Leeds Live · May 14, 2023
Patients harmed in NHS scandals waiting too long for redress, MPs say Recommendations were made more than two years ago after a report concluded patients came to ‘avoidable harm’ in the healthcare system. The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2023
Midwife's baby died in hospital after staff did not 'act urgently enough' Gemma Bentley was left devastated when her son Luca died 17 hours after he was born at Burnley General Teaching Hospital in June 2020 after staff ''did not act urgently enough or escalate care appropriately'. Daily Record · Jan 8, 2023
Midwife's baby died after staff at her hospital 'did not act urgently enough or escalate care appropriately' A coroner said he would have survived had her care been different Manchester Evening News · Jan 7, 2023
NHS ‘accused vaginal mesh victim of lying about pain and subjected her to surveillance’ Exclusive: Baroness Cumberlege renews calls for compensation for patients harmed by mesh procedures The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2022
Maternity failings account for the majority of the NHS’s £13bn spend on negligence The parents of twins Harry and Henry Jackson, who died following hospital failings, have called for the NHS to learn lessons The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2022
Woman sentenced to jail after multi-million pound NHS fraud attempt The 29-year-old claimed she needed a crutch to walk and couldn't drive for long periods - but evidence shown in court proved this not to be true Bristol Post · May 31, 2022
The NHS’s multimillion-pound blunders laid bare in new report NHS Resolution conducted a “deep dive” into high-value negligence claims. The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2022