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Woman quit over results of ‘which Star Wars character are you?’ personality quiz
May 8, 2025Brooke Davies Published May 8, 2025 9:29am Updated May 8, 2025 12:17pm A woman has been handed nearly £30,000 after she was compared to Darth Vader in a team building exercise. Lorna Rooke, an NHS blood donation worker, was told she had the personality of a Sith Lord by colleague Amanda Harber. Amanda had taken […]
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Hip hop star Ebow Graham fell to his death ‘after string of NHS and ambulance failings’
April 28, 2025The NHS has admitted ‘shortcomings’ after a hip hop star died after falling out of a third-storey window. In April 2020, Foreign Beggars’ musician Ebow Graham – who performed under the name Metropolis – died at the age of 41. His death was confirmed by the UK hip hop group on their Facebook page, who […]
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Doctors in end-of-life cases of two UK children can be named, court rules
April 16, 2025Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the UK supreme court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell their story”. Isaiah Haastrup, aged 12 months, and Zainab Abbasi, six, were at the centre of life-support treatment disputes at the high court in London before their deaths in 2018 […]
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NHS hospital too slow to treat doctor’s son who died of sepsis, coroner rules
March 27, 2025A hospital failed to treat the son of one of its consultants with antibiotics and fluids with the required urgency hours before he died of sepsis, a coroner has ruled. It was unclear whether mistakes and delays in the treatment of William Hewes, 22, on 21 January contributed to his death, the coroner, Mary Hassell, […]
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Hospital evacuated after ‘chemical spill’ fears in A&E
February 28, 2025Sarah Hooper Published February 28, 2025 7:04am Updated February 28, 2025 7:42am An investigation has been launched after reports of an ‘unknown chemical’ sparked the evacuation of a London hospital. The unknown chemical was smelled in Newham General Hospital’s A&E department around 8pm yesterday. Specialist units, fire crews, police and ambulance services rushed to the […]
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Student died from sepsis after antibiotics error in London hospital, inquest hears
February 13, 2025A consultant paediatrician warned medical colleagues treating her son that they had failed to give him life-saving antibiotics hours before he died from sepsis, an inquest has heard. William Hewes, 22, a history and politics student, died on 21 January 2023 of meningococcal septicaemia at east London’s Homerton hospital, where his mother, Dr Deborah Burns, […]
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A vital health check is bypassing the people most in need | Letter
November 17, 2024The lack of engagement with the NHS health check should be deeply concerning for the secretary of state, as it is with me, an emergency medicine doctor who treats the consequences of undiagnosed heart disease (Less than half of eligible people received NHS ‘midlife MOT’ since 2019, says watchdog, 13 November). When you look into […]
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Mum-of-three ‘raped repeatedly until she died while unconscious on park bench’
October 2, 2024An NHS worker died after she was raped ‘again and again’ by a stranger on a park bench, a court heard. Natalie Shotter, 37, was on a night out before she was allegedly attacked by Mohamed Iidow, 35, who is on trial for rape and manslaguther at the Old Bailey. The mum-of-three was found dead by a […]
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Doctor who feared having to leave UK after visa blow wins Home Office U-turn
September 16, 2024A doctor from Pakistan who feared he would have to leave his job at a GP surgery in east London is celebrating after a Home Office U-turn over a decision that would have separated him from his family. On Monday morning the Guardian reported on the case of Tajwer Siddiqui, 59, and his wife, Shehlar […]
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Great Ormond Street apologises after children suffered ‘severe harm’ under surgeon
September 8, 2024A leading NHS children’s hospital is reviewing the care 721 patients received after an investigation found that children treated by one of its surgeons came to “severe harm” during limb reconstruction operations. Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) in London has offered its “sincere apologies” to children who have suffered what the Sunday Times reported was […]
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