The Skies We’re Under · Episode

Blue Apple Theatre Company have produced a new film to mark Memorial Holocaust Day. While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust have information about the treatment of disabled people […]

Coroners issue prevention of future deaths reports to inform organisations about risks they could manage to reduce needless fatalities. George Julian looks at how effective these are

David overcame a lifetime of challenges, not least the attitudes of professionals in health and social care who did not understand that, just because a person cannot speak words, it doesn’t mean they can’t think and feel. David was the bravest brother, son and uncle, but what he endured in his final days is unimaginable. […]

In November the evidence was heard over two days in the inquest of David Lodge, who died on 13 January 2022 at Hull Royal Infirmary. Today, Assistant Coroner for East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Kingston upon Hull, Edward Steele, returned to court to give his conclusions. He opened by expressing his condolences […]

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In November the evidence was heard over two days in the inquest of David Lodge, who died on 13 January 2022 at Hull Royal Infirmary. Today, Assistant Coroner for East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Kingston upon Hull, Edward Steele, returned to court to give his conclusions. He opened by expressing his condolences […]

It’s over 2.5 years since David died, in the Acute Assessment Unit at Hull Royal Infirmary (run by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) in mid January 2022. David turned 40 five weeks before he died. He had lived in Hull, in his family home his whole life. David was the middle of three children, […]