The £1bn cost of maternity blunders: Jeremy Hunt exposes damning toll of lawsuits against NHS

Blunders on maternity wards are costing the NHS nearly £1billion a year, the former Health Secretary warns today. Jeremy Hunt has revealed that almost twice as much is spent on lawsuits following poor care of mothers and babies as on the combined pay of all the labour doctors in England’s hospitals. The expenditure was part of … Read more

Nursing homes were bullied into accepting Covid patients from hospitals, damning report finds 

Nursing homes were bullied into accepting Covid patients from hospitals, damning report finds Report finds seventy homes accepted hospital patients untested for Covid-19 A fifth of care homes surveyed received a Covid-19 positive patient from hospital Managers in some homes placed unlawful do not resuscitate orders on residents By Joseph Laws For Mailonline Published: 01:08 … Read more

Scalding rebuke for years of naivety: EDWARD LUCAS, presents damning verdict on Kremlin interference

As I took my seat in the spartan, bug-swept offices of the intelligence and security committee’s anonymous Westminster headquarters in the summer of 2018, my excitement was tempered with trepidation. Since watching the Soviet empire collapse 30 years ago, I had been sounding the alarm about Russia‘s reluctance to give up its dreams of empire. … Read more

Obesity timebomb as damning figures reveal three in ten reception pupils are already too fat

Obesity timebomb in primary schools as damning figures reveal three in ten reception pupils are already too fat Figures show that one fifth of children aged four or five are now considered fat  Nine out of ten of the worst areas affected by obesity timebomb are in the North  New data shows 75 per cent of … Read more

Coronavirus: UK ranks near bottom of damning league table

Britain ranks near the bottom of a damning global league table that compares how countries have tackled the Covid-19 pandemic. Only Belgium fared worse, according to a review of testing, healthcare and death rates that gave 21 OECD member nations a score out of four.  The UK (2.22) was on par with Italy and Spain. … Read more

Home Office has no idea how many illegal immigrants are in Britain, damning new report reveals 

Home Office has no idea how many illegal immigrants are in Britain, damning new report reveals An NAO report said we do not know how many illegal immigrants are in the UK It revealed illegal immigrants who evade detection for two years are disregarded This is despite the £392million annual budget set for Immigration Enforcement By … Read more

Care homes were an ‘afterthought’ during coronavirus response, damning report

NHS hospitals discharged 25,000 people into care homes during the peak of Britain’s Covid-19 crisis without testing them for the coronavirus, a report has revealed. Critics say the move, ordered to free up beds for an anticipated surge in seriously ill virus patients, was ‘extraordinary’ and shows care homes were an ‘afterthought’.  The National Audit … Read more

Probation staff failings ‘put public in danger’, damning new report warns 

Probation staff failings ‘put public in danger’ and officials are not learning lessons from incidents in which freed offenders go on to commit horrific crimes, damning new report warns Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russel says internal checks are not sufficient He says the Government is ‘not doing enough to learn from past mistakes’ System … Read more

Why was PC Keith Palmer left so vulnerable? Damning dossier provides disturbing clues

They came by boat, silently and under the cover of night. All the intruders were armed; all had undergone specialist weapons training. Using only information available on the internet or other public sources, each had studied the external and internal layout of the Palace of Westminster. Now they intended to strike at the very heart … Read more