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NHS trust admits liability for seven-month delay in tongue cancer diagnosis
A man from Kent has received a six-figure sum after King’s College Hospital NHS Trust admitted liability for delays in diagnosing his tongue cancer.
Family believe asbestos at a Coventry car plant may have caused husband’s incurable cancer death
The family of a man who worked at a car plant in Coventry are appealing to his former colleagues for information after his death from mesothelioma, an incurable asbestos-related cancer.
Inquest finds multiple ‘gross failures’ led to man’s death at Whipps Cross A&E
A 62-year-old man took his own life in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department at Whipps Cross Hospital, east London, after staff failed to remove items he could harm himself with and failed to action a plan to put him on one-to-one observations.
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