James Melley

‘We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting for the truth’- this is the extraordinary tale of sacrifice, love and ingenuity by the parents of Alice Figueiredo. ⁦@AlisonHoltBBC⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

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/…

How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in the case of a spy who abused women bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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.

Under fire NHS trust records patient ate breakfast three days after he died. @jamesmelley #mentalhealth bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"I think she got a black service, not an NHS service,” Lord Adebowale on his mother’s treatment and the racial disparities across the NHS. H/T @NickTriggle bbc.com/news/articles/…

NEW: Police believe a file containing details of hundreds of NHS maternity cases was probably deliberately deleted. Officers said the material, which was temporarily lost by hospitals in Nottingham, was most likely “to be the action of an individual" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…