This week’s take on events from Andy Cowper: Easy sleazy There can be few more heartbreaking stories of NHS failings than that of Harry Richford, who died aged just seven days old after a botched delivery and resuscitation. It will haunt East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust for years to come but as well as the damage to its reputation it will now cost it significant amounts of money. The trust faces an unlimited fine after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to provide safe care, and treatment causing harm, to Harry and his mum Sarah. It’s the first time a trust has faced a Care Quality Commission prosecution for breaching fundamental standards, focused around the quality of clinical care rather than issues primarily related to estates. Previous fines have been in the low hundreds of thousands but fines in cases brought by the Health and Safety Executive have been higher.