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  • Baby died after mother given ‘incorrect advice’ in call to Stoke-on-Trent hospital

    Baby died after mother given ‘incorrect advice’ in call to Stoke-on-Trent hospital

    A six-month-old baby died after the mother was given the wrong advice, hospital board papers have revealed. The mother called the maternity assessment unit at the Royal Stoke University Hospital seeking medical advice, the hospital trust said.

  • Shropshire baby deaths: New date for Ockenden report publication

    Shropshire baby deaths: New date for Ockenden report publication

    A new date has been set for a much-awaited report into maternity failings at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. The inquiry, led by Donna Ockenden, is the largest of its kind in the NHS’s history, investigating 1,862 cases.

  • Covid vaccination – the knowns and unknowns

    Covid vaccination – the knowns and unknowns

    Many factors influence decisions about vaccine use including many ‘unknowns’ and this raises questions about the wisdom of targeting young people and recommending boosters for everyone, explains Allyson Pollock, Clinical Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University.