Emily Townsend

Leading campaigners have accused ministers of "suppressing" a report that is understood to set out significant concerns raised by families' harmed by their experiences of maternity care investigations.

Commissioners have demanded an action plan after an "increase of inpatient deaths" at a mental health trust already subject to a statutory inquiry into at least 2,000 deaths.

The new leadership of a troubled NHS trust has been accused of losing focus and "struggling" to improve the provider's performance by one of its local MPs.

A major national review into maternity services heard "repeated" evidence of "normal birth ideology" despite concluding it was not "widespread" - partly because it relied on AI evidence summaries - a former expert adviser has warned.

A national review's poor use of AI to analyse evidence contributed to the downplaying of a key factor in the deaths of mothers and babies according to one of its leading members.

An independent review into 10 child fatalities has identified fundamental governance and sepsis care failings at an embattled trust, HSJ has discovered.

An independent review into 10 child fatalities has identified fundamental governance and sepsis care failings at an embattled trust, HSJ has discovered.

The government has U-turned on its plan to abolish an independent health service investigations body after opposition in the House of Lords, HSJ has learned.

Complaints about paediatric care and GPs refusing to make referrals to specialist services leapt over the past year, HSJ analysis suggests, as overall concerns hit record levels.

The first trust to establish a diverse "shadow board" to tackle poor ethnic diversity among directors has reported recruitment equality has worsened since its launch.