A nine-year-old boy died from sepsis after doctors and nurses missed a “significant” GP note, an inquest heard. Dylan Cope, from Newport was taken to the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, on 6 December 2022 after his GP wrote “query appendicitis”, but this note was not read. The senior doctor on shift that night said...
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Parliament will aim to pass an important bill ahead of the general election to ensure victims of the infected blood scandal are compensated as soon as possible, the government says. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said there was a “clear desire” to get it done. MPs will consider House of Lords amendments to the Victims and...
Simon Case is the head of the civil service, which makes him probably the most important unelected person in politics. The cabinet secretary’s role is to advise the prime minister, lead implementation of the government’s policies and manage other high-level civil servants. Born in Bristol in 1978, he first joined the civil service as a...
3 hours ago Kelly Morgan,BBC News, Wiltshire The sisters tell BBC Radio Wiltshire they want the therapy made more widely available Two sisters are hoping more funding will be made available so all deaf children can access Auditory Verbal Therapy. Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers...
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The UK Covid Inquiry has opened its investigation into the impact of the pandemic on children and young people., external Areas it will focus on include how children’s education, development, mental health and use of social media were affected. The inquiry said it would listen to children with special educational needs, disabilities and from a...
The government is due to announce what it says will be a “comprehensive” compensation scheme. Source link
Victims of the scandal said they had been “gaslit for generations” and felt “vindicated” by the report. Source link
Two main groups of people were caught up in the scandal. One was people with haemophilia, and those with similar disorders, who have a rare genetic condition which means their blood does not clot properly. In the 1970s, a new treatment was developed to replace the missing clotting agents, made from donated human blood plasma....