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6 days ago | 
news.sky.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes |Laura Bundock |Mark Thompson
One of the country's leading hospitals has been accused of covering up concerns about a surgeon made a decade before she was eventually suspended. A joint investigation by Sky News and The Sunday Times found the trust may have downplayed previous concerns, with a report identifying issues with Ms Stohr back in 2016. A senior source at the hospital said children were "severely permanently harmed", and "some of the cases are horrendous".
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6 days ago | 
mkfm.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes |Laura Bundock |Mark Thompson
Kuldeep Stohr was suspended from Addenbrooke's Hospital in January this year after a review found issues with some of her surgeries - with the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) later saying it was reviewing the care of 800 patients. A joint investigation by Sky News and The Sunday Times found the trust may have downplayed previous concerns, with a report identifying issues with Ms Stohr back in 2016.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Laura Bundock |Megan Harwood-Baynes
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1 month ago | 
news.sky.com | Laura Bundock |Megan Harwood-Baynes
The mother of a young girl operated on 17 times by a now-suspended surgeon has told Sky News she's "angry and so upset" and fears her daughter may never walk again. Her child is only eight years old and now needs further surgery, including a hip replacement. She was one of nine patients whose treatment fell below the expected standard at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. The Department of Health told Sky News the situation is "incredibly concerning".
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1 month ago | 
news.sky.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes |Laura Bundock |Mark Thompson
Children who underwent operations with a now-suspended surgeon at a Cambridge hospital are being let down again by a lack of information and transparency from the hospital's trust, according to a lawyer representing one of the families. The orthopaedic surgeon, who has not been named, has since been suspended while a second external review is carried out.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
msn.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes |Laura Bundock |Mark Thompson
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes
Patients are dying in corridors and going undiscovered for hours while the sick are left to soil themselves, nurses have said, revealing the scale of the corridor crisis inside the UK's hospitals. In a "harrowing" report built from the experiences of more than 5,000 NHS nursing staff, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) found almost seven in 10 (66.81%) say they are delivering care in overcrowded or unsuitable places, including converted cupboards, corridors and even car parks, on a daily basis.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes
Women and their partners should be given paid time off work if they experience a miscarriage, MPs have said. As of April 2020, employees can be eligible for statutory parental bereavement leave, including pay, if they have a stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy, but there is no specific leave for a pre-24 week miscarriage.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes
Every week in our Money blog, we answer questions about your financial problems or consumer disputes. This week, a reader asked what they could do after being charged nearly £200 by TUI for overweight luggage. Hannah asked: "We booked a holiday with TUI and the night before we tried to increase our luggage allowance (we were travelling with our one-year-old and only managed to finish packing at 6pm).
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Megan Harwood-Baynes
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