Children and young people with life-threatening illnesses are not being treated appropriately because the health professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.
The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health reviewed child deaths in three regions of England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2006 and scrutinised 119 deaths.
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The chair of a leading mental health trust is to leave after four-and-a-half years in post.
Acute trusts are expected to be told they cannot keep mental health patients who are waiting for a bed or assessment within their accident and emergency department, HSJ understands.
A struggling acute trust’s leadership will be taken over on a joint basis by the chief executive of a nearby NHS provider, HSJ has learned.
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