{"id":590515,"date":"2026-08-20T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590515\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:20:09","slug":"north-west-nhs-trust-accused-of-failing-to-investigate-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590515\/","title":{"rendered":"North West NHS trust accused of failing to investigate deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other allegations raised in the report include staff suggesting their accounts of serious harm or death are &#8220;shut down or not investigated properly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like many NHS organisations, we&#8217;re facing challenges,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are working to address those concerns and will continue to listen when colleagues tell us we haven&#8217;t got something right, so that we can keep learning and improving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;We have clear processes to investigate incidents and learning from these is an area we need to prioritise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust highlighted &#8220;a number of routes&#8221; available for staff to raise their concerns, saying it had also brought in an independent senior nurse to &#8220;strengthen our approach to responding to concerns raised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also responded to claims of corridors being overcrowded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like many other organisations, we sometimes have to provide care for patients in corridors and other temporary escalation spaces,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is due to significant pressures on patient flow, including waits in A&amp;E, delayed admissions and transfers, insufficient bed capacity and delays in discharge and transfer of care across pathways.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other allegations raised in the report include staff suggesting their accounts of serious harm or death are &#8220;shut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-590515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}