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NHS Tayside admits safety failings after dementia patient's death

By Emily Whitehouse 02 October 2026

NHS Tayside has admitted safety failings that contributed to the death of a dementia patient at a mental health hospital in Perth.

REGULATION

Fit for the Future's real estate challenge

01 October 2026

Stephen Scott, real estate disputes partner at law firm, Shakespeare Martineau, says the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan presents complex real estate challenges

REGULATION

The rarely mentioned threat to maternity care

01 October 2026

Dr Lorin Lakasing, author of Delivering the truth: Why NHS maternity care is broken and how we can fix it together, explains why maternity care litigation is failing everyone

REGULATION

Trust apologises following still births review

By Lee Peart 01 October 2026

East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised and said it has ‘failed families’ after conducting an independent review of 11 still births that took place between June 2025 and March 2026.

REGULATION

Surgery services re-rated requires improvement at Salford Royal Hospital

By Lee Peart 01 October 2026

Surgery services at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust’s Salford Royal Hospital have been re-rated requires improvement following a CQC inspection in May.

REGULATION

Surgery services upgraded to outstanding at Spire hospital

By Lee Peart 30 September 2026

Surgery services at Spire Little Aston Hospital in Sutton Coldfield have been upgraded from good to outstanding.

REGULATION

Acute and intensive care mental health wards rated outstanding

By Lee Peart 30 September 2026

Acute and intensive care mental health inpatient services provided by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) have been rated outstanding by health watchdog the CQC.

REGULATION

Medical device fraudster given three-year suspended sentence

By Lee Peart 28 September 2026

A 69-year-old man who supplied medical devices with false CE markings has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

COUNTY DURHAM AND DARLINGTON NHS

BREAKING NEWS: County Durham and Darlington extends breast services review

By Lee Peart 24 September 2026

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has agreed to extend its review of breast services back to 2015.

MATERNITY

Hospital 'not consistently keeping women and babies safe'

By Lee Peart 23 September 2026

A CQC inspection has found Worthing Hospital, run by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is not ‘consistently keeping women and babies safe’.

REGULATION

Funding opportunity to establish centres of excellence

By Lee Peart 23 September 2026

Researchers, academic organisations, healthcare organisations, industry and innovators are being invited to bid for funding to establish four Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innova...