NHS medical negligence persisting in England ‘despite 24 years of warnings’

Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years’ worth of warnings, MPs have said.In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts committee (PAC) excoriates the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for allowing the cost of mistakes to balloon to £3.6bn a year.Between them, the two bodies have failed to take “any meaningful action” to address the problem in England, despite four PAC reports from as early as 2002 advising them to do so, the committee says.“It feels impossible to accept that, despite two decades’ worth of warnings, we still appear to be worlds away from government or [the] NHS engaging with the underlying causes of this issue,” said Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the chair of the influential cross-party committee

Great Ormond Street surgeon harmed 94 children, review finds

Nearly 100 children were harmed by a Great Ormond Street surgeon, according to an independent review.Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) conducted an independent review of nearly 800 patients treated by the consultant orthopaedic surgeon Yaser Jabbar between 2017 and 2022, who specialised in limb lengthening and reconstruction.Of the 789 children under his care, the study concluded that 94 were specifically harmed as a result of his actions, of whom 91 had been operated on by Jabbar.Announcing the findings, Matthew Shaw, the chief executive of Gosh, said everyone at the hospital was “profoundly sorry” for all those affected and promised the trust had learned lessons.“We have made significant changes to both the orthopaedic service itself and across the hospital to minimise the chance of something like this happening again

Dr Saboor Mir obituary

My father, Dr Saboor Mir, who has died aged 94, was an eminent ophthalmologist and family GP who worked for the NHS for more than 40 years.Having done his training in his native Pakistan, Saboor arrived in Glasgow on Christmas Eve, 1965, with his wife, Razia (nee Bukhsh), also a doctor. They both took up roles at the Western Infirmary and Vale of Leven hospitals.In the 1970s, the family moved to Watford, Hertfordshire, where Saboor and Razia took up a GP practice partnership. During this time Saboor also worked as an eye surgeon and ophthalmologist at Charing Cross hospital in west London

Tell us: do you live in a multigenerational house share?

New data from SpareRoom shows that almost four in 10 flatmates now live in multi-generational households, where the age difference between the oldest and youngest adult is 20 years or more.Do you live in a house share where there is a large age gap between housemates? What impact does that have on your living arrangements? Do you enjoy living with people of different ages? What positives and negatives does it bring?You can share your experience of living in a multigenerational house share using this form.Please include as much detail as possible. Please include as much detail as possible. Please note, the maximum file size is 5

Farage attack on high street Turkish barber shops is dog-whistle racism, minister says

Nigel Farage’s attack on Turkish barber shops amounts to dog-whistle racism without a credible plan to fix struggling high streets across the country, a government minister has said.Miatta Fahnbulleh, the devolution, faith and communities minister, said the Reform UK leader was deploying the “politics of grievance” as his populist rightwing party attempts to capitalise on high street decline.“We’re all aligned in thinking the last government failed in the last 15 years, but they [Reform] don’t have the answers,” she said. “They turn and do the politics of division. They blame people of difference rather than deal with the fundamentals

Survey of over-50s women finds almost two in three struggle with mental health

Almost two in three women over 50 in the UK struggle with their mental health as they deal with menopause, relationship breakdowns and changes to their appearance, a survey has found.Brain fog, parents dying, children leaving home and financial pressures can also trigger difficulties such as sleeping problems, feeling anxious or overwhelmed, and a loss of zest for life.However, an “epidemic of silence” surrounds the challenges women face to their mental health in midlife, as almost nine out of 10 of those affected seek no help to cope.The findings emerged from a survey of 2,000 women aged 50 and over across Britain, commissioned by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which represents therapists.The findings were “a sobering read”, said Dr Lisa Morrison, BACP’s director of professional standards, policy and research