Michael Buchanan
@BBCMBuchanan
Hebridean | Social Affairs Correspondent
Hudgell Solicitors have been instructed by seven families to investigate the care provided to loved ones who died after undergoing heart valve operations at Castle Hill Hospital in East Yorkshire. All patients died after undergoing the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation…
NEW: Medical errors & two death certificates - how a hospital at the centre of a police investigation into several deaths failed to tell the family of one man what had happened on the operating table and then changed the official cause of death. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
BREAKING: We have issued legal letters to four of the UK's largest freeholders: E&J Estates, Long Harbour, Consensus Business Group and Ground Rents Income Fund plc. The ultimate beneficiaries of some of these companies are amongst the wealthiest people in the UK. Read the…
Flat owners planning legal claim over 'secret' insurance charges bbc.in/44y4NQO
Update: Earlier this year the High Court granted us permission to judicially review the GMC’s decision to cancel Dr Jonathan Penny’s MPTS tribunal and/or not consider the issuing of a warning. The GMC have flip flopped for a third time will no longer defend the judicial…
Update: The GMC have flip flopped yet again; have retracted their offer to settle; and will contest our petition to the High Court Judicial Review and deny any tribunal nor even a warning is necessary for Dr Penny’s conduct. The incompetence of the GMC knows no bounds. I’m…
BBC has been investigating claims patients harmed at Umiversity Hospital Sussec where police are investigating allegations of avoidable deaths and corporate manslaughter. Please read our latest report with @BBCMBuchanan
Marc Lamah, dropped by a private provider, continues to operate on NHS patients in Brighton. Source: BBC News share.google/FzF6EBsXoiA2uh…
NEW: A surgeon banned from working by a private healthcare company over concerns about his medical practice continues to work in the NHS. With @CharlotteRowle1 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
George Findlay boss of Sussex hospital has stepped down at University Hospitals Sussex. Listen to our #fBBCfileon4report about the Sussex trust where police are investigating up to 200 allegations of avoidable deaths and harms and corporate manslaugter bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Reposting this in light of the report into court delays. My extraordinary week last year at Telford Magistrates Court. bbc.com/news/articles/…
A paramedic who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug, killing their unborn child, has been jailed for 10 years and six months. #Abortionlaw bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in the case of a spy who abused women bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
I honestly cannot express my appreciation enough for everyone who has supported me along the way. But really, without @centrewj, none of this would have been possible. I owe them more than I can ever repay. It's been quite the journey!
NEW: After an extraordinary ten year campaign by @emilyinpublic her abuser was finally jailed this week. As she says herself, "it only took 3,706 days of me fighting" for him to be imprisoned. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
NEW: After an extraordinary ten year campaign by @emilyinpublic her abuser was finally jailed this week. As she says herself, "it only took 3,706 days of me fighting" for him to be imprisoned. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
MI5 is in this mess because they covered for a violent misogynist state agent who used his role to coerce and abuse Abuse must never be excused, nor abusers protected MI5 underestimated our determination to hold them to account Now they know bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Following @wesstreeting maternity announcement on Monday, a full statement from some of the bereaved and harmed families in Leeds. @DOckendenLtd please help us.
NEW: Ministers’ plans to help people into work rather than onto benefits are “a mess” and “undeliverable” according to officials. Employment support package “only has a handful of people working on a £1B programme.” More welfare problems for government. bbc.com/news/articles/…
Usually I have to explain a story in 2-3 minutes. The good folk at Newscast allowed Suzanne and I to have a proper discussion about why maternity services are struggling.
Thank you to @BBCSocial #Newscast and @adamfleming for asking me to discuss with @BBCMBuchanan the National inquiry into maternity care which has just been announced @LeighDay_Law
NEW: A national inquiry is to take place into maternity care in England. The review will look into concerns at up to 10 units, inc Leeds & Sussex. There will also be a look at previous inquiries to pull together one national set of actions. Due to be finished by December.
NEW - Nearly 70 families & 5 whistleblowers previously told me about safety concerns - today Maternity services at Leeds NHS trust have been downgraded from good to "inadequate" by CQC, because their failings posed "a significant risk" to women & babies. bbc.com/news/articles/…