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Sat.Jan 28, 2023

‘Risk of future deaths’: coroner issues rare warning to health secretary over hospitals crisis

The Guardian

JANUARY 28, 2023

Inquest into case of a 61-year-old Norfolk woman left in an ambulance queue triggers challenge to Steve Barclay A coroner has urged the health secretary to take action to prevent needless deaths after a woman died of heart failure following a four-hour wait in the back of an ambulance. Lyn Brind, 61, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, with chest pains and low blood oxygen levels but could not be admitted because the hospital had “no space”.

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The car drew up. The children got in: UK child asylum-seekers’ narrow escape from kidnap

The Guardian

JANUARY 28, 2023

Alleged traffickers abducted three children from outside a Home Office-run hotel in Brighton last May. They were lucky to evade capture – many don’t • Read more: the government should hang its head in shame The apparent audacity of the abduction appears to have been its undoing. On 25 May last year, a car pulled up outside a Brighton hotel holding 58 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Government

Sat.Jan 28, 2023

‘Risk of future deaths’: coroner issues rare warning to health secretary over hospitals crisis

The car drew up. The children got in: UK child asylum-seekers’ narrow escape from kidnap

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