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The UK’s Health Ombudsman has warned that people with eating disorders are being repeatedly failed by the system and radical changes need to be made to prevent further tragedies. Little progress has been made in the six years since the...

Ombudsman Rob Behrens comments on today's report from the Health and Social Care Committee's expert panel on the progress of the digitalisation of the NHS. "We called for improvements to NHS digital infrastructure to be treated as an urgent issue...

A 60-year-old man was denied potentially life-saving treatment after a hospital failed to diagnose his liver cancer for five months. Richard Excell, from Devon, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in December 2020. He...

Cancer Research UK has today revealed that if current trends continue, cancer cases will rise from the 384,000 diagnosed each year now, to over half a million by 2040. The report, Cancer in the UK: Overview 2023, was released ahead...

Ombudsman Rob Behrens comments on the report released today by the Healthcare Investigation Safety Branch (HSIB) on access to critical patient safety information. The report highlights a case where a patient was misidentified leading clinicians to think a do not...