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Jason Watkinss daughter Maude had sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the bodys own tissues and organs.

Ombudsman identifies care failings and calls for reform bill to make system ‘fit for 21st century’

The report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman lays out a number of recommendations for the Government.

Patients with mental health conditions are being put at risk when they leave hospital care and the UK government must take urgent preventative action, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has said.1 Ombudsman Rob Behrens called on the government to bring in the “desperately needed” reforms in the long awaited mental health bill, which would impose a statutory duty to create a care and treatment plan for everyone detained under the Mental Health Act and ensure that all relevant part...

The government is to launch a review into the variation in how open and transparent NHS and social care providers in England are with patients when things go wrong. In a written statement to the House of Commons the health minister Maria Caulfield said that the Department of Health and Social Care will lead a review into the “effectiveness of the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers in England.”1 The announcement was welcomed by …

A toxic culture of defensiveness and hostility pervades the NHS, and despite many patient safety reviews nothing has fundamentally changed, Rob Behrens tells Abi Rimmer Early on in his career as a civil servant, Rob Behrens, now the parliamentary and health service ombudsman, was sent by the UK government to South Africa, to work on the transformation from apartheid to democracy. “People in Britain used to say what they had to do was hard. I would come back from South Africa and say, ‘You d...

According to the UK Sepsis Trust, 48,000 people die from sepsis every year in the UK.

Almost four million so-called Waspi women caught out by the state pension hike are condemned to go to their graves without a penny in compensation, according to a worrying new report. Westminster has made sure of it.

Those with existing health problems also at greater risk of condition that kills estimated 48,000 a year in UK

A lack of empathy can be fatal, for both doctors and patients.