Objectives To review how National Health Service (NHS) Secondary Care Trusts (NSCTs) are using the Learning from Deaths (LfDs ... 27 28 The number of case record reviews or investigations undertaken ...

What you need to know ### BMJ Learning To obtain accredited continuous professional development points, subscribers to BMJ Learning can complete the full module at The module contains seven ...

With the indefinite delay to the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), how can people identify when a ...

1 The ONS’s finding comes as the NHS is experiencing one of the busiest winters on record, with reports of patients waiting up to 30 hours for treatment in overcrowded A&E departments. Figures for ...

A minimum £400m funding for 2024/25 will be available to ICSs to meet minimum digital foundations, especially electronic patient records ... The national NHS Estates team has taken the learning from ...

It is a record fine for an NHS trust over maternity care failures – double the previous highest penalty, which was also issued to NUH for a separate case in 2023. The hospital trust entered ...

Scotland’s struggling NHS is spending £8.53 per pack of paracetamol under the SNP Government’s free prescription policy. Figures from the Public Health Scotland agency show nearly 2.5m ...

An NHS trust which failed to provide safe treatment to three babies who died within weeks of each other has been fined a record £1.6 million. Adele O'Sullivan, Kahlani Rawson and Quinn Parker ...

Ayrshire 's long-serving NHS staff were guests of honour at two special events held by the region's health board recently. The celebration events brought together NHS colleagues who have dedicated ...

An NHS trust has been fined £1.6m after admitting it failed to provide safe care and treatment to three babies who died within days of their births. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) had charged ...

And yet, the report concludes, there was an “absence” of action plans and learning. NHS England bosses admit the “system got it wrong”. Every mental health trust in England has now been ...