Hebridean | Social Affairs Correspondent
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From “free” rooms to investment opportunities: how taxpayers are paying for private companies to make large profits from the benefits system.
@BBCPanorama
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Michael Buchanan retweeted
"The NHS is extremely stretched...you can't ask staff to pour from an empty cup."
Katie Russell lost her daughter Poppy in preventable circumstances at birth. Katie and her husband Neil are now working with the trust to bring compassionate care back into the NHS.
NEW: A couple whose daughter died due to poor maternity care have launched an initiative to bring compassion into the NHS.
Poppy’s Promise came out of the failure of the NHS to treat her parents as human beings, including blaming mum for the death.
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NEW: An NHS trust has apologised after 8 babies may have survived with better care. All were term stillbirths.
Since then, another 7 term stillbirths have occurred.
The deaths all happened at East Kent, where a maternity review has already occurred.
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Michael Buchanan retweeted
Snow Patrol sounding amazing at the Royal Albert Hall tonight 🎶❤️ Celebrating 20 years of their brilliant album ‘Eyes Open’ 📀
@snowpatrol 🎸
🎥 ‘Chasing Cars’
Michael Buchanan retweeted
It’s estimated that one in five women in the UK will experience a miscarriage in their lifetime.
But if you lose a pregnancy before 24 weeks, there is currently no legal right to bereavement leave.
I don’t think that’s right.
Losing a pregnancy can be devastating. You and your partner shouldn’t have to worry about going straight back to work.
So we’re changing the law.
From April, women and their partners will be entitled to two weeks off after any pregnancy loss.
And we’re making wider changes, with new rights to time off when you lose someone you love.
When you’re grieving, you deserve the time and space to do that.
Now @thetimes says there should be "a judge-led, statutory public inquiry" into maternity failures. It comes after we tracked down the former medical director in Nottingham. He didn't cooperate with the Ockenden review, and didn't answer our questions.
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It feels so unfair that former executives refused to take part in #Ockenden review. Over 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable death/ harm.
Why is this only ever ok in the #NHS and maternity. In any other walk of life they would be in jail #Nottingham
Michael Buchanan retweeted
Families deserve accountability. Former executives of NUH knew about maternity harm and did nothing!! @BBCMBuchanan @BBCNews @nottmhospitals @YvetteCooperMP @MichelleWelshMP @wesstreeting @andyburnham
NEW: Data from the British Social Attitudes survey suggests just 7% of people support cuts to disability benefits.
49% said they supported more being spent on such benefits, even if it led to higher taxes.
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NEW: The inquiry into maternity care in Sussex begins today. It will examine over 1000 cases from 2018 and is expected to report in 2029.
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Michael Buchanan retweeted
I’m so proud to share that the investigation I’ve been working on for the past 18 months is launching on BBC R4 & Panorama - the remarkable story of an alleged Saudi spy who helped the first two 9/11 hijackers who arrived in the US.
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Michael Buchanan retweeted
Some news from my ever courageous wife. So proud of Elizabeth and all that she accomplishes.
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Last year, we reported concerns about Marc Lamah, a surgeon in Brighton.
The death of Arthur Brooke Craig raise further questions for him and the Royal Sussex Hospital.
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Michael Buchanan retweeted
Our family has recently experienced a two day Inquest with a third session for the outcome.
The Coroner's Office, our key point of contact, was very helpful. Always polite, quick to respond, forwarded information to the Coroner and passed responses back to us. (1)
I've often had to report from inquests and I'm always struck by how variable the whole experience can be for the relatives of the person who died.
This week @BBCfileon4 allowed me to explore the system by following one family's experience. 🧵
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The second inquest found that Daniel had died due to the cancer, and that as he was non-verbal, the care home he was living in could not have known about it.
But his family say the coroner never called a learning disabilty expert - despite saying she wasn't an expert herself.
They also say the coroner overlooked several instances where the care home could have intervened. Ultimately, they concluded that "Daniel did not need to die on the day that he died in the way that he died."
If you prefer to read about the case:
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