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Radio 4,14 Sep 2026,45 mins

‘Litany of failures’ in case of patient killed on NHS mental health ward

The World Tonight

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An inquest has heard that staff falsified records, slept and were on their phones on the night that Hugo Flint-Cahan was killed by another patient. Hugo’s brother, who is an NHS doctor, said there had been a “litany of failures� and blamed “incompetence and dishonesty� on the part of staff. Also on the programme: As tech stocks fall around the world, we ask what the consequences could be for the global economy. And the renowned oncologist Professor Ian Smith tells us about witnessing half a century of improvements in the treatment of breast cancer.

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