A leading children's hospital is to be censured by the NHS watchdog for endangering the safety of vulnerable young patients by offering them substandard care. The Healthcare Commission will issue a highly critical report on Birmingham Children's Hospital that will highlight numerous failings in both quality of care and management processes. The hospital announced yesterday that Paul O�...

Gordon Brown personally demanded an inquiry into the children's hospital where leading doctors have warned about lapses in safety, lack of qualified staff and major operations being performed needlessly. The Prime Minister asked an NHS watchdog to examine the quality of care at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) after The Observer last week revealed the findings of a report highlightin...

A senior doctor at Birmingham Children's Hospital gave The Observer an insider's account of the many problems there. He spoke on condition of anonymity: "The Birmingham Children's Hospital is a major regional and national centre of excellence in paediatric care. In some of what we do, we are recognised as being world-class. Yet there aren't enough beds at the hospital for all t...

Read All About It: We’re Always In The Press Birmingham Children’s Hospital is often in the news. Apparently so. From today’s Observer :: Scandal of care at top children’s hospital Treatment at one of Britain’s leading children’s hospitals is worse than that in the developing world, according to a damning doctors’ report uncovered by The Observer which als...

A famous NHS name has taken a knock – but the Baby P tragedy was never Haringey's fault alone For Britain's most famous hospital, the inquiry report into the National Health Service involvement in the Baby P case is humiliating and humbling. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust is internationally renowned for its research and the quality of its clinical practice. By ...

Twelve NHS hospital trusts in England are "significantly underperforming", according to a report, despite nine recently having been rated as good or excellent by regulators.

Health secretary apologises over damning report on Mid Staffordshire NHS trust The health secretary, Alan Johnson, today apologised after a damning report uncovered "appalling" failures in care at an NHS hospital. Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust over three years, the report said. Although it is not clear how many of the...

The BBC reports: A groundbreaking £1bn, 10-year deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital has been confirmed. Circle is to take over Cambridgeshire’s Hinchingbrooke Hospital in February – although it will stay in the NHS. The deal will see Circle assume the financial risks of making the hospital more efficient and

Treatment at one of Britain's leading children's hospitals is worse than that in the developing world, according to a damning doctors' report uncovered by The Observer which also reveals how parents are "told lies" to cover up sub-standard care. In the document, which the head of the Royal College of Surgeons describes as alarming, consultants are scathing about the Birmingham Child...

A report by the Royal College of Surgeons, published today, reveals that children’s NHS operations are being cancelled because of the chaotic introduction of new Government safeguarding regulations. From the report: Overzealous interpretation of the requirements by NHS Trusts and long delays in the system mean that NHS surgeons cannot move between Trusts quickly enough to