Katherine Rushton

May 19, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Claire Newell |Katherine Rushton |Janet Eastham

Every funeral home in the country faces a spot check amid concern over widespread mistreatment of the dead. The Government has ordered councils to carry out a check of every funeral home in an attempt to reassure the public. Last week The Telegraph revealed six police investigations are underway into allegations of funeral directors that have left bodies to decompose, kept the deceased in a self-storage unit or have had ashes gone missing.

Jan 27, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Claire Newell |Katherine Rushton |Janet Eastham |Luca Rufo

Physician associates have attempted to illegally prescribe drugs at dozens of NHS trusts and missed life-threatening diagnoses, a dossier claims. Doctors working across the country claim patients’ lives have been put at risk by physician associates (PAs) who they say have failed to respond appropriately to medical emergencies – alleging more than 70 instances of patient harm and “near misses”.

Sep 1, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Katherine Rushton |Claire Newell |Janet Eastham

A government unit accused of seeking to suppress free speech during the pandemic worked with Britain’s intelligence agencies, senior civil servants have confirmed. Documents submitted to the Covid inquiry and marked “official sensitive” reveal that the “UK intelligence community” has been involved in the Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU) since it was founded in 2019.