Still not good enough: Hospital slammed with second failing rating

Still not good enough: Hospital slammed with second failing rating

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King's Lynn "fell short of what people should be able to expect" in an "extremely concerning" inspection report released today.

The chief inspector of hospitals for the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Professor Ted Baker, panned the west Norfolk trust as he found "little evidence of improvement" when inspectors visited in March and April.

Previously the QEH was rated as inadequate and put i

Daughter's angst as police investigate whether mother's body was wrongly donated to medical science

Daughter's angst as police investigate whether mother's body was wrongly donated to medical science

Police are investigating an allegation that a much-loved mother's body was handed over to medical science without her consent.

Gwenda Higgins died in February this year after living with dementia and suffering a stroke.

Her daughter Nicola Wing said she felt her mother's body had been treated like a "piece of meat" and the consent form she apparently signed was dated two days before her death -
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