Liverpool NHS trust ordered to take ‘immediate action’ amid growing safety concerns
November 14, 2021
A Liverpool NHS trust has been rated as “requires improvement” by the health service watchdog due to concerns over care and safety. Read More
£1.5m fine for NHS Trust following failures to manage environmental risks
June 28, 2021
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUFT) has been fined for failing to manage environmental risks within its mental health inpatient wards. Read More
Text app aids communication between hospital staff and patients with hearing difficulties
January 19, 2021
Addenbrooke’s Hospital has carried out tests of a speech app as a way of helping its medical team communicate with people who are deaf or have hearing loss. Read More
NHS trust fined £80k after mental health patient fell from roof
August 22, 2019
An NHS trust has been fined £80,000 after one of its patients fell from the roof of a ward, despite it being warned about its potential danger in 2011. Read More
Improving staff productivity and wellbeing at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
May 31, 2019
Physiotherapy provision helps trust save almost half a million pounds. Read More
NHS Trust failed to control ‘lethal’ asbestos exposure risk
May 13, 2019
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has been fined after refurbishment work undertaken in an accommodation block at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital exposed Trust employees and contractors to asbestos. Read More
NHS trust fined following fatal falls
November 29, 2017
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has been fined following a series of HSE investigations into the deaths of five Read More
NHS trust invited to review sharps regulations
February 24, 2017
An NHS Trust has been invited to take part in the Health and Safety Executive’s review of the sharps regulations, Read More
Hospital guilty of failing to protect man who fell 130ft to his death
January 30, 2017
An NHS trust has admitted failing a patient who fell 130ft (39m) to his death from an industrial chimney on Read More
Hospital fined £336k after dementia patient’s “preventable” death
November 29, 2016
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £366,000 after a patient on a specialist dementia ward, was found Read More
