All news on the topic: Hospitals

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Inside Lucy Letby's 'beige' home that hid sinister catalogue of her killings
Cold-blooded serial killer Lucy Letby will never return to the semi-detached Chester property she once called home, where she lived during her spate of heinous crimes
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Security guard 'with huge heart' dies weeks after being injured at Creamfields
Michael, who was also known as Bruno tragically died after a serious head injury while working as a security guard at Creamfields festival in Cheshire
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Mental health nurse faces jail over trysts with knife attacker in secure unit
Nurse Jill McLaren secretly visited the unnamed patient - who was sent to the clinic over a series of knife attacks - and even took him to her home under the pretence of a shopping trip
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Woman blinded herself with drain cleaner to fulfil 'dream of being disabled'
WARNING: DISTURBING DETAILS - Jewel Shuping has Body Integrity Identity Disorder and dreamt of being blind since she was a child, so in 2006 she took matters into her own hands
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Baby dies after he's infected with brain-eating amoeba at children's splash park
Michael Alexander Pollock III is believed to have caught the deadly infection - which enters via the nose - while playing at a splash park in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Baby dug out of grave after passerby 'heard it crying four days after burial'
WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: A grieving family thought there may be hope four days after their baby was pronounced dead - when a friend said they heard crying coming from inside the cemetery. The baby was exhumed, but tragically to no avail
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Top reason elderly people end up in A&E that has killed almost 1,000 in a year
In 2020, almost a thousand people across the north west died as a result of a fall at home. The greatest proportion of those were over the age of 75, where 730 people died as a result
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Patient, 86, died after hip op in 14-hour wait for 999 crew to take him 2 miles
Geoffrey Hoad had undergone routine hip surgery in August 2022 at the Spire hospital in Norfolk, but three days later, while recovering there, his condition deteriorated
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Symptoms of streptococcal toxic shock after pianist teen has hands amputated
14-year-old Mathias Uribe, a piano starlet from Tennessee, had to have his hands and feet amputated after flu symptoms turned out to be streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
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NHS waiting lists hit record high - check your hospital delays
In England, around one in seven patients - a total of 7.68 million - are waiting for treatment. The latest figure is the highest number since NHS England records began in 2007
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Piano starlet's parents in emotional interview after hands and feet are removed
The parents of a Tennessee piano starlet have opened up on the torrid months they went through after he went through sepsis - a bodily overreaction to infection. They are attempting to raise money for Mathias' prosthetics, so he can play piano again
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Indi Gregory's grandad says parents should decide baby's fate ahead of judgement
Indi Gregory’s grandfather Michael told the Mirror it should be up to his son and Claire to decide what happens to the six-month-old baby, who is battling mitochondrial disease
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Traumatised mum reveals how baby girl nearly died after relative kissed her lips
Little Kaylah had to spend four days in hospital after a relative kissed her on the mouth and her mum wants other parents to be aware of the possible dangers
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Doctors remove 14-year-old boy’s hands and feet after he shows flu-like symptoms
Tennessee teenager and piano starlet Mathias Uribe has had all four limbs amputated after his flu-like symptoms turned deadly, but his parents are adamant he is going to have an "amazing life" despite losing his hands and feet
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Teen spends two days walking around with broken back after medics 'missed it'
The teenager, from Friockheim, was rushed to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee but discharged just hours later with what medics described as a 'squashed vertebrae'
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'Tonsillitis' teen's room left untouched and mum sleeps in her bed
Leah Rogers, 17, died after coming down with what she thought was tonsillitis just days after returning from a holiday to Majorca, with her family keeping her bedroom unchanged
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Baby with one-in-a-million rare condition saved thanks to hero big sister
Jakob Frost was just six months old when he was diagnosed with Mirage Syndrome and the baby had just a 30% chance of survival
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Nurse shares how much she actually gets paid - and people are stunned
Joanna Hickey has shared her payslip on social media to reveal the reality of nurses' pay - and she is one of the 'near the top of the scale' in her profession
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Munchausen syndrome by proxy warning as cases go undetected every year
Professor of Psychology Marc D. Feldman from the University of Alabama has revealed why some people develop Munchausen syndrome by proxy and the reasons why perpetrators commit such sinister crimes
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'I will fight doctors who say it is time for me to die' says teen girl
A teenage girl has fought courts and doctors after outliving an estimate of 'days to live' for over a year. She suffers from the same disease as baby Charlie Gard did, and claimed that her life can be saved with experimental treatment.
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Lying police officer pretended her own mum had died to get time off work
Melissa Hodson, who worked as a police constable in Bury, told her supervisors her mum had been taken ill and she needed time off for hospital visits before later saying she had died
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Nurses 'texted jokes about killing patients' and 'wouldn't give them laxatives'
Catherine Hudson and Charlotte Wilmot are accused of a range of offending including administering sedatives to "keep patients quiet" and withholding laxatives for a cruel reason
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Mum's demand after girl, 13, died when doctor ignored parents' fears
Merope Mills wants NHS hubs around the country to bring in Martha's Rule, which would patients the power to get an automatic second medical opinion about hospital care
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Last text from girl, 17, who died on first holiday after getting tonsillitis
The heartbroken siblings of Leah Rogers, 17, who died from a rare disorder after returning from holiday, have revealed some of the final messages she sent to them
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Dad left fighting for life on ventilator after being struck down by mystery bug
Armando Ramos, 53, had visited Manilla from his home in Chula Vista, San Diego, following the death of his mother, before being struck down and rushed to hospital with a mystery illness